[图书][B] Ontology made easy

AL Thomasson - 2014 - books.google.com
In the decades following Quine, debates about existence have taken center stage in the
metaphysics. But neo-Quinean ontology has reached a crisis point, given the endless …

[图书][B] The moving spotlight: An essay on time and ontology

RP Cameron - 2015 - books.google.com
Ross P. Cameron argues that the flow of time is a genuine feature of reality. He suggests
that the best version of the A-Theory is a version of the Moving Spotlight view, according to …

[PDF][PDF] A theory of metaphysical indeterminacy

E Barnes, JRG Williams - 2011 - philarchive.org
In this paper, we aim to provide a theory of metaphysical indeterminacy. But there are many
different projects such an ambition could encompass, so it is important to be clear about …

[图书][B] The end of the timeless God

RT Mullins - 2016 - books.google.com
The claim that God is timeless has been the majority view throughout church history.
However, it is not obvious that divine timelessness is compatible with fundamental Christian …

The open future

S Torre - Philosophy Compass, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
A commonly held idea regarding the nature of time is that the future is open and the past is
fixed or closed. This article investigates the notion that there is an asymmetry in openness …

[图书][B] The meaning of if

J Khoo - 2022 - books.google.com
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 …

Nothing to Come

F Correia, S Rosenkranz - 2018 - Springer
This monograph undertakes to give a limited defence of the Growing Block Theory of time
(GBT), as first conceived by CD Broad in his 1923 book Scientific Thought. The defence is …

Will done Better: Selection Semantics, Future Credence, and Indeterminacy

F Cariani, P Santorio - Mind, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Statements about the future are central in everyday conversation and reasoning. How
should we understand their meaning? The received view among philosophers treats will as …

[图书][B] The fall and hypertime

H Hudson - 2014 - books.google.com
Frequently, alleged irreconcilable conflicts between science and religion are instead
misdescribed battles concerning negotiable philosophical assumptions--conflicts between …

Presentism, eternalism, and the growing block

K Miller - A Companion to the Philosophy of Time, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Presentism, eternalism, and growing‐blockism are theories or models of what the temporal
and ontic structure of the world is, or could be. This chapter sets aside the question of …