............Time
and Universe, 2009
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- NB:
Having apparently exhausted our funding opportunities
from SSHRC, we are now in the process of reformulating
the Cluster. The changes in personnel are reflected on
this page. The co-principals would be interested to hear
suggestions as to how this project might be able to find
funding to continue. In the meantime we will be going
into a kind of hibernation. But I (RTWA) will continue to
monitor this website and bring items of interest to the
attention of TaU members.
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What
is tau?
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is a cluster of
researchers interested in philosophical problems arising in the
context of formulating a theory of Quantum Gravity.
- The project came
into existence as a result of a Cluster Design Grant
competition instigated by SSHRC in 2004. It is based in Canada,
and involves collaborators from Canada, the United States,
England, the Netherlands, Italy, France, New Zealand and
Australia.
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- After winning
from SSHRC a Cluster Design Grant grant in 2005 and an Interim
Funding Grant in 2006, as well as receiving funding from the
Universities of British Columbia, Western Ontario and McMaster,
we have held 3 workshops (Montreal, June 2006, Vancouver,
May 2007,
and Montreal, June 2008), and sponsored the
LECTURE
SERIES in
2006, a series of lectures given by Professor Harvey Brown of
Oxford University in several Canadian cities.
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- This cluster has
the dual aims of
- assisting
cosmologists in making progress on the so far intractable problems
concerning time in the search for a viable theory of Quantum
Gravity
- providing a public
forum for explanation and discussion of the exciting new ideas
concerning time that are broached in modern cosmology.
Who are
we?
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- the other
participants in tau
are:
- Gordon
Belot
(Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh), Harvey
Brown
(History and Philosophy of Science, Oxford University),
Jeremy
Butterfield
(All Souls College, Oxford University), Craig
Callender
(Philosophy, UCSD), Saurya Das (Physics, University of
Lethbridge), Dennis
Dieks
(Foundations and Philosophy of the Natural Sciences, Utrecht),
Robert
DiSalle
(Philosophy, University of Western Ontario), Mauro
Dorato
(Philosophy, University of Rome III), Heather
Dyke
(Philosophy, University of Otago), John
Earman
(Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh), Doreen
Fraser
(Philosophy, University of Waterloo), Robert Geroch (University
of Chicago), Richard
Healey
(Philosophy, University of Arizona), Storrs
McCall
(Philosophy, McGill University), Joshua
Mozersky
(Philosophy, Queens University), Jonathan Oppenheim (Applied
Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge),
Kent
Peacock
(Philosophy, University of Lethbridge), Vesselin
Petkov
(Philosophy, Concordia), Oliver
Pooley,
Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University), Huw
Price
(Centre for Time at the University of Sydney), Carlo
Rovelli
(Centre de Physique Théorique de Luminy, Marseilles),
Simon
Saunders
(History and Philosophy of Science, Oxford University),
Lee
Smolin
(Physics, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo), Gerard 't Hooft,
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht), Antony
Valentini
(Physics, Centre de Physique Théorique de Luminy,
Université de la Méditerranée,
Marseilles), Andrew
Wayne
(Philosophy, University of Guelph), Steven
Weinstein
(Philosophy, University of Waterloo), Christian
Wüthrich
(Philosophy, UCSD).
Links
to Affiliated Organizations
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- Centre
for Time,
University of Sydney
- International
Sociey for the Advanced Study of Spacetime
- Oxford
Philosophy of Physics
website
- ESF
Network for Philosophical and foundational problems of modern
physics
- The
Origins
Institute
at McMaster University
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