Philosophy of Cosmology 2009

Day 1: Sunday 20th September
Morning	Cosmology
09.00-09.30	Welcome and Opening Comments: Joe Silk, George Ellis
09.30-10.30	Talk 1: The state of cosmology today: Joe Silk
10.30-11.30	Talk 2: Inflationary Multiverse: Andrei Linde
11.30-12.30	Talk 3: The string theory landscape and the multiverse: Raphael Bousso
Afternoon	Philosophy of Science
13.30-14.15	Talk 4: Cosmology and Inductive Inference: John Norton
14.15-15.00	Talk 5: Probability in the Multiverse: Simon Saunders
15.30-17.00	Panel 1: Alex Vilenkin, Wayne Myrvold, Christopher Smeenk
Evening	Ultimate Explanation
21.00	Talk: Ultimate Explanation: Reforging Natural Philosophy, Timothy O'Connor Response: Martin Rees

Day 2: Monday 21st September
Morning	The Case for Multiverses (1)
09.00-10.00	Keynote Talk: Scientific Justification of Multiverses: Martin Rees
10.00-10.45	Talk 6: Probabilities in the landscape: Philip Candelas
11.15-12.00	Talk 7: Probability measures and initial data for inflation: Robert Brandenberger
12.00-13.00	Panel 2: Critical commentaries: Brian Greene, Jean-Philippe Uzan, Andrei Linde
Afternoon	Fine Tuning and Anthropic Arguments
14.00-15.00	Talk 8: Probability and entropy issues for cosmology: Roger Penrose
15.00-16.00	Panel 3: Explaining fine tuning: Alex Vilenkin, Lawrence Hall, David Wallace
16.30-18.00	Panel 4: Critical commentaries: Alex Pruss, John Barrow, Robin Collins
Evening	Conference Dinner
21.30	Talk: Cosmology, Ultimate Causation and Multiverses: Paul Davies Commentator: George Ellis

Day 3: Tuesday 22nd September
Morning	The Case for Multiverses (2)
09.00-09.45	Talk 9: How we know multiverses exist: Bernard Carr
09.45-10.30	Talk 10: Do we know multiverses exist? George Ellis
11.00-12.30	Panel 5: The views of physicists: Pedro Ferreira, George Efstathiou, Sean Carroll
Afternoon	Philosophical Assessment of the Scientific Case
13.30-15.30	Panel 6: John Norton, Wayne Myrvold, David Wallace, Henrik Zinkernagel
16.00-17.30	Workshop Discussion: Cosmology as a Science Panel 7: Bill Stoeger, Jean-Philippe Uzan, Jeremy Butterfield, Huw Price
Evening	Balliol Dinner
21.30	Talk: Why is there something rather than nothing? John Hawthorne Reply: Max Tegmark Concluding remarks: Simon Saunders