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Professor Huw Price (photo credit: AI and Society 2017 http://www.aiandsociety.org/en/speaker/ )

Huw Price, Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy (em) on Boltzmann’s time bomb and on time’s arrow, 30 April 2021

Huw Price, Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy emeritus and emeritus Fellow of Trinity College in video discussion on Friday 30 April 2021 at 19:15 (Tokyo time)

All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome

On Friday 30 April 2021 at 7:15pm (Tokyo time), 11:15am (London/Cambridge time) Huw Price has very kindly agreed to join us for a video discussion on Boltzmann’s time bomb and other topics – about Ludwig Boltzmann see: https://www.boltzmann.com/ludwig-boltzmann/

Prior registration required until Thursday 29 April, please register using the feedback form at the bottom of this page. All Trinity members, Fellows, students, alumni are very welcome – if you join Trinity in Japan for the first time, please briefly introduce yourself and your connection to Trinity. There is no charge or fee.

Anonymous registrations are not accepted.

We will upload the recording to the Trinity in Japan Youtube Channel – by participating you agree to the upload of the recording to websites and social media:

https://www.youtube.com/trinityjapan?sub_confirmation=1

The meeting will be fully online via ZOOM on Friday 30 April 2021 as follows (we will have no in-person meeting this time):

  • 7pm (Tokyo time)- event starts
  • 7:15pm – 8:15pm video discussion with Professor Huw Price on Boltzmann’s time bomb and other topics
  • 8:15pm – follow-on discussions

If you have questions for the discussion with Professor Huw Price, to make best use of Huw’s time, the best will be if you could send me questions before hand by email, so I can moderate the discussion.

About Professor Huw Price

Huw Price is emeritus Bertrand Russell Professor for Philosophy at Cambridge University, co-Founder with Lord Martin Rees of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at Cambridge, and emeritus Fellow of Trinity College.

More about Professor Huw Price:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huw_Price

https://prce.hu/w/index.html

List of publications: https://prce.hu/w/publications.html

Selected books and publications:

  • Time’s Arrow and Archimedes’ Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time, Oxford University Press, New York, 1996
  • Facts and the Function of Truth, Blackwell, Oxford, 1988
  • Naturalism Without Mirrors, Oxford University Press, 2011
  • Boltzmann’s time bomb. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 53(2002) 83—119

Huw Price: Is Time Fundamental?

Huw Price on Artificial Intelligence (AI)

To pre-register & enquiries

All Trinity members, Fellows and students globally are very welcome to pre-register, and I will send a registration link if there are still places available.

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