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Relativity as Support for Presentism:A Modest Evidential Argument
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2016/6/15
Presentism is roughly the view that only the present exists. This view requires an absolute simultaneity relation. The special theory of relativity, however, is highly successful and does not account ...
Presentism/Eternalism and Endurantism/Perdurantism:why the unsubstantiality of the first debate implies that of the second1
Metaphysics of time Persistence perdurantism endurantism presentism eternalism
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2016/5/30
The main claim that I want to defend in this paper is that the there are logical equivalences between eternalism and perdurantism on the one hand and presentism and endurantism on the other. By “logic...
The relativity of simultaneity and presentism
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2016/5/27
According to conventional wisdom, presentism is at odds with the theory of relativity. This is supposed to be shown quite simply just by considering the relativity of simultaneity. In this paper I wil...
Presentism as an empirical hypothesis
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2016/5/27
Within philosophy of physics it is broadly accepted that presentism as an empirical hypothesis has been falsified by the development of special relativity. In this paper, I identify and reject an assu...
Presentism and Eternalism in Perspective
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2008/4/22
The distinction between presentism and eternalism is usually sought in some formula like ‘Only presently existing things exist’ or ‘Past, present, and future events are equally real’. I argue that amb...
Presentism and Quantum Gravity
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2008/4/22
There is a philosophical tradition of arguing against presentism, the thesis that only presently existing things exist, on the basis of its incompatibility with fundamental physics. I grant that prese...
Presentism and Relativity
Relativity Philosophy of Physics Spacetime
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2008/4/22
In this critical notice we argue against William Craig's recent attempt to reconcile presentism (roughly, the view that only the present is real) with relativity theory. Craig’s defense of his positio...