Speakers

Craig Callender is the Tata Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego and Founding Faculty and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics. He is also President-Elect of the Philosophy of Science Association and faculty at The John Bell Institute, Hvar, Croatia. He obtained his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1997 with a dissertation on quantum mechanics and the direction of time and worked at the London School of Economics for five years before moving to San Diego.

His main area of research and teaching is philosophy of science, ranging from the nature of time to various applied social and ethical issues. His book What Makes Time Special? (Oxford University Press, 2017) won the 2018 Lakatos Award and the 2022 Suppes Prize. 

Chair of Analytic Philosophy at the University of Geneva. He is also co-director (with Kevin Mulligan) of eidos, the Center for Metaphysics and a member of the Academia Europaea. He has published three books—Existential Dependence and Cognate Notions (2005), As Time Goes By: Eternal facts in an Ageing Universe (2012, with S. Rosenkranz) and Nothing To Come: A Defence of the Growing Block Theory of Time (2018, with S. Rosenkranz)—and over 70 articles. He has worked mainly in metaphysics and logic.

Nina Emery is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College and Affiliated Graduate Faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her work is at the intersection of metaphysics and physics, and includes published papers on laws of nature, chance and probability, time and modality, quantum ontology, and more. Her first book, Naturalism Beyond the Limits of Science, about the relationship between metaphysics and physics, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023. She just finished a term as the President of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science and is the current president of the Philosophy of Time Society.

Professor of Metaphysics, Logic, and Philosophy of Language at New York University (USA). After graduating at Oxford University he received his PhD at the University of Warwick. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies and is a former editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic. In addition to his primary areas of research, he has written papers in ancient philosophy, linguistics, computer science, and economic theory.

Jenann Ismael is the William H. Miller III Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in Philosophy of Physics and has broad interests that range from the metaphysics of science to philosophy of mind and cognitive science. 

Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Founder and Director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. Before joining NYU he was at Rutgers for a quarter-century. He has a BA in Physics and Philosophy from Yale and a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from Pittsburgh. His research interests lie primarily in the foundations of physics, metaphysics, and logic. His books include Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity (Blackwell), Truth and Paradox (Oxford), The Metaphysics Within Physics (Oxford), Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time (Princeton University Press), New Foundations for Physical Geometry: The Theory of Linear Structures (Oxford). Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory (Princeton). He is a member of the Academie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences and the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an ACLS fellow.

Kristie Miller is professor of philosophy and joint director of the Centre for Time at the University of Sydney. She has published widely in metaphysics, particularly in the philosophy of time. Her recent work focusses on the nature of the manifest temporal image, in particular, the extent to which it seems to us in experience as though time passes or flows in a metaphysically robust way. Her last book “Out of Time’ with Sam Baron and Jonathan Tallant explored the idea of timelessness, and her forthcoming book “The normative status of time bias: an empirically led investigation” investigates the phenomenon of tine biased preferences. She is currently working on a book that defends the block universe view of time. 

L.A. Paul is the Millstone Family Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Cognitive Science at Yale University. Her research explores questions focused on the metaphysics and epistemology of the self, decision-making, persistence and time, and transformative experience.

Oliver Pooley is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Oriel College. His research is in metaphysics and the philosophy of physics. Particular topics of interest include: anti-haecceitism; the substantivalist–relationalist debate; the dynamical approach to spacetime theories; background independence; the problem of time in general relativity; and the implications of relativity for the philosophy of time.

Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Tuebingen (Germany) since 2012. He was an undergraduate student at Tuebingen and at Stanford University, and a graduate student at Oxford University, where he received his B.Phil. in 1999 and his D.Phil. in 2001. From 2002 to 2005, he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and a Junior Research Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford. Subsequently, he held tenure-track positions as Assistant Professor at Tulane University and at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition, he held a Research Fellowship from the Humboldt-Foundation and was a visiting professor at UCLA.

Susanna Schellenberg is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. Currently, she is working on issues at the intersection of AI, neuroscience, and philosophy. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim, a Humboldt prize, a NEH fellowship, and a Mellon New Directions Fellowship. In a series of papers culminating in her book The Unity of Perception: Content, Consciousness, Evidence (Oxford University Press, 2018), she has developed an integrated theory of perception that is sensitive to evidence from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and psychophysics. In addition to perception, the topics she has tackled include consciousness, evidence, cognitive capacities, representations, and imagination. 

Senior Researcher  at National Autonomous  University of Mexico (UNAM).  His field of research is the  intersection of gravitation and  quantum theory. Ph.D  Physics 1989: Purdue University, USA,  B.Sc. Physics  and  Mathematics,  Hebrew University of  Jerusalem, Israel. Visiting Positions at the Philosophy  Department of   NYU, New York, USA,  Institute for Space Physics  and  Astronomy, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina,  the Centre de  Physique Theorique, University of  Marseille, France, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Pennsylvania State  University, Pennsylvania, USA and the Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA. He  has  been  a  member of  the Editorial Board of Classical  and  Quantum Gravity,   the Scientific Council of the “ICTP-South American Institute for Fundamental Research”,  and  is currently a member of the Board of Directors  “John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics".  Has  published 120  research papers  and  several chapters in  books. These  works  have received  over 5800 citations.  

Emily Thomas is Professor in Philosophy at Durham University. Prior to this she obtained a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and held a NWO grant at the University of Groningen. She has published widely on the history of metaphysics, especially space and time. She is the author of several scholarly monographs, including Absolute Time: Rifts in Early Modern British Metaphysics (2018, Oxford University Press), and Victoria Welby (2023, Cambridge University Press); and the popular book The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad (Oxford University Press, 2020). In 2020 she won a Leverhulme Prize for excellence in research. In addition to her research, she has appeared on many radio shows, including BBC’s In Our Time, and ABC’s Nightlife; and written magazine articles for the likes of Aeon, The Conversation, and History Today.

Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Genève (Switzerland). He works primarily in philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, and metaphysics.
He has studied at the Universities of Bern, Cambridge, and Pittsburgh, where he received his PhD. He is the recipient of the 2009 Philosophy of Science Association Recent PhD Essay Award and the 2012 Lauener Prize for Up-and-Coming Philosophers and was a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. He was Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. Currently, he collaborates with Nick Huggett (University of Illinois at Chicago) on a large Templeton-funded project in the philosophy of quantum gravity.