Programme

18 février. Introduction. Le problème du temps en philosophie (Michael Esfeld)
25 février. Le problème du temps en physique de la relativité générale I (Vincent Lam)
4 mars. Le problème du temps en physique de la relativité générale II (Vincent Lam)
11 mars. Le problème du temps et le structuralisme spatio-temporel (Vincent Lam)
18 mars. Quantification de la gravitation: vers une structure non-temporelle? (Vincent Lam)
25 mars. 15h-19h. Physique du temps et perception du temps (Graduate School Perception)
28 mars 9h-17h. Graduate School Workshop on Perception
1 avril. Causalité et temps: l'idée des structures causales (Michael Esfeld)
8 avril. Causalité et temps: la théorie des ensembles causaux I (Michael Esfeld & Vincent Lam)
29 avril 15-17h Causalité et temps: la théorie des ensembles causaux II (Michael Esfeld)
29 avril 17-19h Conclusion (Michael Esfeld & Vincent Lam)

Bibliographie

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D. Rickles. Time and Structure in Canonical Gravity. In D. Rickles, S. French and J. Saatsi, editors, The Structural Foundations of Quantum Gravity, pages 152–195. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006.
C. Rovelli. Quantum gravity. In J. Butterfield & J. Earman, editors, Philosophy of physics. Part B. Pages 1287-1329. Elsvier, Amsterdam, 2007.
M. Dorato, M. Esfeld & V. Lam. GRW as a fundamental physical theory: an ontology of structures and dispositions. Manuscript.
F. Dowker. Causal sets and the deep structure of spacetime. In A. Ashtekar, editor, 100 Years of Relativity: Space-time Structure, Einstein and Beyond. Pages 445-465. World Scientific, Singapore, 2006.
R. Sorkin. Relativity does not imply that the future already exists: A counterexample. In V. Petkov, editor, Relativity and the dimensionality of the world. Pages 153-161. Springer, Berlin, 2007.