Time On Trial

West Virginia University’s Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce a major conference April 25 and 26, 2008 in Morgantown. “Time on Trial: One Hundred Years of McTaggart’s Argument against Time” will celebrate a century of the reception of McTaggart’s (in)famous argument that time does not exist. We are pleased to have three outstanding keynote speakers: L. Nathan Oaklander, Quentin Smith and Michael Tooley.

After a competitive, blind-review process we have chosen the following:

Michelle Beer, Florida International University, "Tense and Truth Conditions"

Kevin Falvey, University of California, Santa Barbara, "The View from Nowhen"

Jonathan Tallant, University of Nottingham, "Time for Presence?"

Vasileios Tsompanidis, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Smart and Tensed Beliefs"

Hans Sprecher, Brown University, "Time Travel and McTaggart"

Bradley Monton, University of Colorado, Boulder, "McTaggart and Modern Physics"

Look for a link to a blog for the conference on this site in the near future.

The proceedings will be published in Philosophia.

Contact Ernani Magalhaes for more information. See you in April!

Below is a link to the McTaggart paper the conference is commemorating.
J. Ellis McTaggart - Unreality of Time