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Zeit ist nur eine Illusion
FQXi Essay Contest
2010 Meeting of the Canadian Society for the
History and Philosophy of Science - Montreal
Philosophy of Science T-shirts
Personal (Svetla's and my) verification of the
old recipe for (i) a healthy spirit in a healthy body
and (ii) living, studying and working better and more
"The Illusions of Reality" - an idea of the book
From Illusions to Reality: Time, Spacetime and
the Nature of Existence (in preparation)

Picture taken on 16 October 2007 by Dawson College students

Vesselin Petkov

Science College, Liberal Arts College,
and Philosophy Department, Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8

Tel.: 514-848-2424 ext. 2572
Fax: 514-848-2573

e-mail: vpetkov@alcor.concordia.ca

Education:
- PhD in Physics (1997, Concordia, Montreal)
- PhD in Philosophy (1988, Bulg. Acad. Sci.)
- MSc in Physics (1980, University of Sofia)
Research interests:
- Physics - the nature of inertia; propagation of light in non-inertial reference frames (and physics in non-inertial reference frames); foundations of special and general relativity; foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory
- Philosophy of Science - the nature of spacetime; conceptual and philosophical issues of relativity and quantum mechanics; the flow of time; growth of scientific knowledge and confirmation of scientific theories
- Philosophy - existence; time, identity, and four-dimensional objects; justification of induction; free will
Books and two of my favourite papers (All Books):

2010 - editor

2010 - editor

2009 - author, 2ed

2007 - editor

2005 - author, 1ed
- "On the Reality of Minkowski Space". Foundations of Physics, 37 (2007) pp. 1499-1502
- "Simultaneity, Conventionality and Existence". The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 40 (1989) pp. 69-76
Professional activities:
- Member of the Governing Board of the International Society for the Advanced Study of Spacetime and spokesperson for the Society
- Primary organizer of the International Conferences on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime
- Series editor - Springer book series Fundamental Theories of Physics
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International Conferences on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime: | 2004 | 2006 | 2008 |
International Society for the Advanced Study of Spacetime
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