• Event Date: April 1, 2008
  • Event Start Time: 1:00 PM
  • Event End Time: 2:00 PM
  • Event Location: Rutgers University, Department of Philosophy
  • Event Type: Talks: RuCCS Colloquia
  • Event Semester: Spring 2008
  • Event Contact: Barry Loewer
  • Event Extra info: <a href="http://philosophy.rutgers.edu/FACSTAFF/BIOS/loewer.html">Barry Loewer</a>

 

Counterfactual statements- e.g.� if all the votes had been  counted Gore would have won� -exhibit a temporal asymmetry. Small counterfactual differences at time  typically make for big differences in the future but not the past. Causation, memory, decision making, and special science regularities also exhibit temporal assymetries (time�s arrows). I discuss the connections among these temporal asymmetries and propose an account of how they are grounded in physical laws.