Oliver Pooley: Research
Diagram by Herman Minkowski via Wikimedia. Much of my research focuses on the nature of space, time and spacetime. I'm interested in the implications of physics for traditional philosophical questions, such as whether time really passes. (It doesn't.) I'm also interested in the ways in which work in general metaphysics can (and should) inform the interpretation of physics.
Talks Available Online
Relativity and the Invisible Thin Red Line, Geneva, May 2023 [ YouTube ]
Models of the Open Future and Relativistic Physics, Oxford, June 2022 [ YouTube ]
Stein's Notion of Becoming and the Metaphysics of Time, Chicago, June 2017 [ YouTube ]
Fundamentality and the Dynamical Approach to Relativity, Oxford, March 2017 [ audio podcast | slides | transcript ]
Relativity and the growing block, Geneva, April 2016 [ YouTube ]
Why we don’t need any more talks on the hole argument, LSE, July 2016 [ YouTube ]
First-Class Constraints, Gauge, and the Wheeler–DeWitt Equation, Munich, July 2015 [ LMUcast ]
- Against the Gravity/Inertia Split? (with Dennis Lehmkuhl), Munich, July 2013 [ LMUcast ]
Relativity, the Open Future, and the Passage of Time, the Aristotelian Society, June 2013 [ audio podcast | slides ]
Online Papers
The list of papers below is generated by the wonderful PhilPapers. If you cannot get hold of the published version of something that I've written, please ask me for a copy.