What does the passage of time consist in? There are some suggestive metaphors. aEvents approach us, pass us, and recede from us, like sticks and leaves floating on the river of time …
Despite its small stature," if" occupies a central place both in everyday language and the philosophical lexicon. In allowing us to talk about hypothetical situations," if" raises a host of …
Many phenomena appear to be indeterminate, including material macro-object boundaries and certain open future claims. Here I provide an account of indeterminacy in metaphysical …
When speakers utter conflicting moral sentences (“X is wrong”/“X is not wrong”), it seems clear that they disagree. It has often been suggested that the fact that the speakers disagree …
Frequently, alleged irreconcilable conflicts between science and religion are instead misdescribed battles concerning negotiable philosophical assumptions--conflicts between …
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Is the objective passage of time compatible with relativistic physics? There are two easy routes to an affirmative answer:(1) provide a deflationary analysis of passage compatible …
In The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are all False, Patrick Todd launches a sustained defense of a radical interpretation of the doctrine of the open future. He argues …
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In this article, the author focuses on the relationship between metaphysical indeterminacy and fundamental indeterminacy. Topics discussed include standard arguments for …
Thisness Presentism outlines and defends a novel version of presentism, the view that only present entities exist and what is present really changes, a view of time that captures a real …