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Boston University’s Center for Philosophy and History of Science</div>
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<p class="">Presents <i><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">The Robert S. Cohen Forum</span></i><a href="x-msg://44/#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class=""><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span class=""><span style="font-size:12pt">[i]</span></span></span></span></a></p>
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<p class=""><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Time in Cosmology</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Friday, October 18th, 2013</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The Castle, Boston University</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">225 Bay State Rd</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">1pm – 5pm</span></p>
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<p class=""><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(38,42,46)">Is time real? What is the status of time in cosmology? Are physical laws timeless or could they evolve? Could changing our views about the status of time and laws in cosmology help
us solve the problem of quantum gravity? This second session of the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science will explore some of the fundamental questions raised by Lee Smolin's recent book
<i>Time Reborn</i>. </span></p>
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<p class=""><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">1pm Time and Law in Cosmology</span></b></p>
<p class="" style="text-indent:0.5in"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Lee Smolin
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">(Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
<p class=""><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">2pm Realism without Reification: How to Believe in Becoming</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"> Jenann Ismael
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">(Philosophy, University of Arizona)</span></p>
<p class=""><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">3pm A Universe in which Everything Changes Sooner or Later</span></b></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"> Roberto Mangabeira Unger
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">(Law School, Harvard University)</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
<p class=""><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">4pm Cosmological Laws without Real Time</span></b></p>
<p class="" style="text-indent:0.5in"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Chris Smeenk
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">(Philosophy, University of Western Ontario)</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
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<p class="">All Center for Philosophy and History of Science events are free and open to the public. For more information on CPHS visit
<a href="http://www.bu.edu/cphs">www. bu.edu/cphs</a></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The annual Robert S. Cohen Forum on Contemporary Issues in Science Studies is named in honor of the Center’s cofounder and first director. For further details, see
</span><a href="http://www.bu.edu/cphs/directors"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">www.bu.edu/cphs/directors</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">.</span></p>
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<div dir="ltr">Erin Seeba</div>
<div dir="ltr">Administrative Assistant<br>
Center for Philosophy and History of Science<br>
Boston University<br>
745 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 506<br>
Boston, MA 02215<br>
617-353-2604<br>
<a href="http://www.bu.edu/cphs" target="_blank">www.bu.edu/cphs</a><br>
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