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Philosophy of Cosmology 2009
Programme
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Day 0: Saturday 19th September
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19.00-23.00
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Registration, drinks and canape reception at St Anne's College bar
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Day 1: Sunday 20th September
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Morning
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Cosmology
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09.00-09.30
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Welcome and Opening Comments: Joe Silk, George Ellis
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09.30-10.30
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Talk 1: The state of cosmology today: Joe Silk
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10.00-10.30
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Coffee
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10.30-11.30
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Talk 2: Inflationary Multiverse: Andrei Linde
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11.30-12.30
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Talk 3: The string theory landscape and the multiverse: Raphael Bousso
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12.30-13.30
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Lunch
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Afternoon
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Philosophy of Science
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13.30-14.15
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Talk 4: Cosmology and Inductive Inference: John Norton
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14.15-15.00
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Talk 5: Probability in the Multiverse: Simon Saunders
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15.00-15.30
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Tea
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15.30-17.00
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Panel 1: Alex Vilenkin, Wayne Myrvold, Christopher Smeenk
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Evening
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Ultimate Explanation
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19.00-
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Dinner
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-21.00
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Talk: Ultimate Explanation: Reforging Natural Philosophy, Timothy O'Connor
Response: Martin Rees
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Day 2: Monday 21st September
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Morning
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The Case for Multiverses (1)
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09.00-10.00
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Keynote Talk: Scientific Justification of Multiverses: Martin Rees
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10.00-10.45
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Talk 6: Probabilities in the landscape: Philip Candelas
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10.45-11.15
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Coffee
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11.15-12.00
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Talk 7: Probability measures and initial data for inflation: Robert Brandenberger
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12.00-13.00
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Panel 2: Critical commentaries: Brian Greene, Jean-Philippe Uzan, Andrei Linde
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13.00-14.00
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Lunch
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Afternoon
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Fine Tuning and Anthropic Arguments
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14.00-15.00
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Talk 8: Probability and entropy issues for cosmology: Roger Penrose
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15.00-16.00
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Panel 3: Explaining fine tuning: Alex Vilenkin, Lawrence Hall, David Wallace
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16.00-16.30
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Tea
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16.30-18.00
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Panel 4: Critical commentaries: Alex Pruss, John Barrow, Robin Collins
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Evening
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Conference Dinner
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19.30-
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Dinner
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-21.30
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Talk: Cosmology, Ultimate Causation and Multiverses: Paul Davies
Commentator: George Ellis
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Day 3: Tuesday 22nd September
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Morning
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The Case for Multiverses (2)
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09.00-09.45
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Talk 9: How we know multiverses exist: Bernard Carr
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09.45-10.30
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Talk 10: Do we know multiverses exist? George Ellis
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10.30-11.00
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Coffee
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11.00-12.30
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Panel 5: The views of physicists: Pedro Ferreira, George Efstathiou, Sean Carroll
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12.30-13.30
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Lunch
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Afternoon
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Philosophical Assessment of the Scientific Case
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13.30-15.30
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Panel 6: John Norton, Wayne Myrvold, David Wallace, Henrik Zinkernagel
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15.30-16.00
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Tea
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16.00-17.30
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Workshop Discussion: Cosmology as a Science
Panel 7: Bill Stoeger, Jean-Philippe Uzan, Jeremy Butterfield, Huw Price
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Evening
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Balliol Dinner
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19.00-
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Dinner
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-21.00
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Talk: Why is there something rather than nothing? John Hawthorne
Reply: Max Tegmark
Concluding remarks: Simon Saunders
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