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The Burning Fuse Model of Unbecoming in Time

Norton, John D. (2013) The Burning Fuse Model of Unbecoming in Time. In: [2013] Workshop on Cosmology and Time (State College, PA; 16-17 April 2013).

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    Abstract

    In the burning fuse model of unbecoming in time, the future is real and past unreal. It is used to motivate the idea that there is something unbecoming in the present literature on the metaphysics of time, whose focus is merely the assigning of a label “real.”

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    Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
    Keywords: presentism eternalism endurantism perdurantism time
    Subjects: General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism
    Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
    Conferences and Volumes: [2013] Workshop on Cosmology and Time (State College, PA; 16-17 April 2013)
    Depositing User: John Norton
    Date Deposited: 29 Jun 2013 04:22
    Last Modified: 29 Jun 2013 04:22
    Item ID: 9854
    URI: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9854

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