Workshop : The coherence of retrocausality

Retrocausality presents a rich field for inquiry, offering both conceptual challenges and opportunities. Among its notable challenges are the classic consistency issues, such as the grandfather paradox, and the bilking argument by Max Black, which question its overall viability. Despite these obstacles, retrocausality remains a promising avenue for research -- particularly in quantum mechanics. Hypothesizing backward-in-time probabilistic dependencies may pave the way toward a convincing single-world realist interpretation of quantum phenomena. In this vein, the exploration of the "retrocausality loophole" to Bell's theorem is part of the motivation for this workshop.

Programme

Monday

10.00 Welcome and cultural activity option

13.00 Alison Fernandes, The Physical Basis of Backwards Causation

14.00 Jan Faye, Do we have an understanding of backward causation?

15.30 Mathias Frisch, TBA

16.30 Jenann Ismael, Who’s afraid of retrocausality?

17.30 Sean Gryb, A new scenario for the arrow of time

19.30 Workshop dinner

Tuesday

9.30 Emily Adlam, Counterfactuals and explanation in all-at-once models

10.30 Simon Friederich, Going beyond forward-in-time nomic probabilities to make Einstein’s vision for the future of quantum theory come true.

12.00 Jørn Kløvfjell Mjelva, Markovianity and Statistical Independence in Entanglement Swapping Experiments

14.00 Joppe Widstam, Inference and Fine-Tuning in Causal Explanations of Bell-Inequality Violations

15.00 Pete Evans, Faithfully Silent: Tuning out the signal

16.30Guido Baccialuppi, Locality, retrocausality, and signalling