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Tense and Indeterminateness

Saunders, Simon (2000) Tense and Indeterminateness. [Preprint]

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    Abstract

    Is tense real and objective? Can the fact that something is past, say, be wholly objective, consistent with special relativity? The answer is yes, but only so long as the distinction has no ontological ground. There is a closely related question. Is the contrast between the determinate and the indeterminate real and objective, consistent with relativity and quantum mechanics? The answer is again yes, but only if the contrast has no ontological ground. Various accounts of it are explored, according to different approaches to quantum mechanics. The Everett interpretation is much the most successful in accounting for it.

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    Item Type: Preprint
    Additional Information: Published in PSA Proceedings Vol. 67, S600-11
    Keywords: presentism, possibilism, Everett, quantum mechanics, special relativity, stochasticity
    Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
    General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism
    Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics
    Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
    Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory
    Depositing User: simon saunders
    Date Deposited: 22 Mar 2005
    Last Modified: 07 Oct 2010 11:13
    Item ID: 2241
    URI: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2241

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