3/6/2013: Oliver Pooley on Relativity, the Open Future, and the Passage of Time

Published: June 10, 2013, 6:53 p.m.

Oliver Pooley a University Lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Oriel College, Oxford. He works in the philosophy of physics and in metaphysics. Much of his research focuses on the nature of space, time and spacetime. Oliver read Physics and Philosophy at Balliol College, and took an MASt in Maths at St John\u2019s College, Cambridge, before returning to Oxford to do graduate work in Philosophy. Before taking up his current position at Oriel, he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford. This podcast is an audio recording of Oliver's talk - "Relativity, the Open Future, and the Passage of Time" - at the Aristotelian Society on 3 June 2013. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.