
2025 Visitors and Events

Workshops and
Conferences 2026
The Centre frequently runs small workshops. Keep up to date by checking these out below.
Visitors2026
January-December, Patrick Dawson
Patrick completed his PhD at Sydney and then spent 3 years in Ireland working with Daniel Deasy on a postdoctoral fellowship. He is back in Sydney for a year and spending time at the Centre completing a book proposal. He works on the metaphysics of time, and in particular, depends a particular version of presentism.
January-June Jan Voosholz
Jan is managing director at the International Centre for Philosophy. H works on the nature of causation and emergence, as well as on scientific realism. He will be visiting the Centre for several months.
January-April Julien Mommer
Julien is graduate student visiting the Centre from the
Università della Svizzera Italiana. He will be presenting work while he is here.
February-May Matias Slavov
Matias is a postdoctoral fellow at Tampere University, Finland, funded by the Academy of Finland. He publishes at the intersection of the metaphysics and science of time and on the nature of clocks.
March-June Xingyi Wen
Xingyi is a graduate student at the University of the Chinese Academy the sciences.
May-August, Harriet Gillies
Harriet Gillies is an artist in residence at the Centre. She has performed in a range of immersive and interactive projects. More details about the nature of her work can be found here.
August-September, Giuliano Torrengo
Professor Giuliano Torrengo is visiting as a distinguished Andersen Visitor. He is the head of the Centre for the Philosophy of Time in Milan. He works in all areas time-related, with a series of papers thinking through fragmentalist accounts of temporality, exploring temporal experience and exploring the open future. He has a 2024 book on temporal experience.
August-September, Luca Gasparinetti
Luca is a graduate student at the University of Milan working on causation. He has several joint projects at the Centre for Time, including one on whether people employ multiple concepts of causation.
August, Eddy Nahmias
Eddy is Professor in philosophy at Georgia State University. He is visiting us as part of the Garven bequest on free will and determinism. Eddy has published extensively on the nature and phenomenology of free will, and is also well known for a series of papers in experimental philosophy probing people's judgements about (inter alia) free will.
August, David Builes
David is an Associate Profess in philosophy at Princeton. He works primarily in metaphysics and has written paper on just about all the topics one can imagine within metaphysics, including time, modality and laws and has previously won the Sanders Prize in metaphysics.

CONFERENCES
The Centre runs various conferences each year. Every year there is an international conference run as part of our membership of the International Association for the Philosophy of Time. Further details can be found here.
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