Stromquist, Eric (2014) Presentism and Physicalism. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Presentism is the view that only the present exists, which mates with the A-theory’s temporal motion and non-relational tense. After examining the compatibility of a presentist world with both special relativity and wavefunction collapse, I invoke physicalism to argue against presentism. I will show why anyone who accepts even a modest physicalism about the mind should have high credence that ours is a block, rather than a presentist universe.
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| Keywords: | presentism, time, A-theory, special relativity, wavefunction collapse, physicalism | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Mr. Eric Stromquist | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 13 Aug 2014 15:25 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 13 Aug 2014 15:25 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 10947 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory | ||||||
| Date: | 13 August 2014 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10947 |
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