Balaguer, Mark (2021) How to Make Presentism Consistent with Special Relativity. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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This paper argues that contrary to what is commonly claimed, presentism is perfectly consistent with the special theory of relativity. More precisely, this paper provides a formulation of a novel relativistic version of presentism that (a) preserves the core “metaphysical stance” of classical presentism, and (b) is fully compatible with special relativity. Others have tried to relativize presentism, but the view put forward here is different from the views that have been proposed in the past.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Balaguer, Mark mbalagu@calstatela.edu
Keywords:	Presentism Special Relativity Relative Existence
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics
Depositing User:	Mark Balaguer
Date Deposited:	10 Nov 2021 04:56
Last Modified:	10 Nov 2021 04:56
Item ID:	19820
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics
Date:	6 November 2021
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19820

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