Lugano Philosophy Colloquia. Timothy Williamson

Timothy Williamson (Oxford) will give the talk Temporal Logic as Metaphysics on Thursday, December 12 at 5.30pm (CET), Room Multiuso FTL Building (USI west campus).

Abstract: The talk will explain a logic-based approach to the metaphysics of time. As the title hints, it will be analogous to the logic-based approach to the metaphysics of possibility and necessity developed in Modal Logic as Metaphysics, though knowledge of that book will not be presupposed. I will discuss the purely logical sense of ‘exist’ and its interaction with temporal operators, the contrast between permanentism (the thesis that always everything is always something) and its denial, temporaryism (the thesis that sometimes something is sometimes nothing), and the logical nature of genuine change.

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