Placek, Tomasz (2010) A locus for ``now''. [Preprint]

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We investigate the concepts of past, present, and future that build upon a modal distinction between the settled past and the open future. The concepts are defined in terms of a pre-causal ordering and of qualitative differences between alternative histories. Finally, we look what an event's past, present, and future look like in the so-called Minkowskian Branching Structures, in which histories are isomorphic to Minkowski spacetime.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Placek, Tomasz
Keywords:	tenses, special theory of relativity, becoming, indeterminism
Subjects:	General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism
Depositing User:	Tomasz Placek
Date Deposited:	14 May 2010
Last Modified:	28 May 2011 16:22
Item ID:	5355
Subjects:	General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism
Date:	May 2010
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/5355

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