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SUMMARY:The C theory of time - Matt Farr (Department of History and Philos
 ophy of Science)
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CONTACT:Matt Farr
DESCRIPTION:Does time have a direction? Intuitively\, it does. After all\,
  our experiences\, our thoughts\, even our scientific explanations of phen
 omena are time-directed\; things evolve from earlier to later\, and it wou
 ld seem unnecessary and indeed odd to try to expunge such talk from our ph
 ilosophical lexicon. Nevertheless\, in this talk I will make the case for 
 what I call the C theory of time: in short\, the thesis that time does not
  have a direction. I will do so by making the theory as palatable as possi
 ble\, and this will involve giving an account of why it is permissible and
  indeed useful to talk in time-directed terms\, what role time-directed ex
 planations play in science\, and why neither of these should commit us to 
 the claim that reality is fundamentally directed in time. On the positive 
 side\, I will make the case that the C theory's deflationism about the dir
 ection of time offers a superior account of time asymmetries in physics th
 an rival time-direction-realist accounts.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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