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SUMMARY:The C theory of time - Dr Matt Farr (Department of History and Phi
 losophy of Science\, University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Trinity College Science Society
DESCRIPTION:Does time have a direction? Intuitively\, it does. After all\,
  our experiences\, our thoughts\, and indeed out scientific explanations o
 f phenomena are ordinarily time-directed\; systems evolve from earlier to 
 later and depend upon initial and not final conditions and it would seem u
 nnecessary\, and indeed odd\, to try to expunge such talk from our scienti
 fic lexicon. Nevertheless\, in this talk I make the case for what I call t
 he ‘C theory of time': in short\, the thesis that time does not have a d
 irection. I do so by making the theory as palatable as possible\, and this
  will involve giving an account of why it is permissible and indeed useful
  to talk in time-directed terms\, what role time-directed explanations pla
 y in physics\, and why neither of these should commit us to the claim that
  reality is fundamentally directed in time. Moreover\, I demonstrate that 
 the C theory provides a better understanding of time asymmetries in physic
 s than rival time-direction-realist accounts.
LOCATION:Winstanley Lecture Hall\, Trinity College
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