Deng, Natalja (2018) What is temporal ontology? Philosophical Studies, 175 (3). pp. 793-807. ISSN 0031-8116
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Temporal ontology is the part of ontology involving the rival positions of presentism, eternalism, and the growing block theory. While this much is clear, it’s surprisingly difficult to elucidate the substance of the disagreement between presentists and eternalists (to focus on the most widespread positions). Certain events happened that are not
happening now; what is it to disagree about whether these events exist (simpliciter, or else tenselessly)? In spite of widespread suspicion concerning the status and methods of analytic metaphysics, skeptics’ doubts about this debate have not generally been heeded, neither by
metaphysicians, nor by philosophers of physics. This paper revisits the question in the light of prominent elucidation attempts from both camps (by Ted Sider, Christian Wüthrich, and Tom Stoneham). The upshot is that skeptics were right to be puzzled. The paper then
explores a possible re-interpretation of positions in temporal ontology that links it to normative views about how we should live as temporal beings.
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| Keywords: | Time, Ontology | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory |
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| Depositing User: | Prof. Natalja Deng | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 16 Jun 2019 13:16 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 16 Jun 2019 13:16 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 16120 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophical Studies | ||||||
| Publisher: | Springer (Springer Science+Business Media B.V.) | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-0... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-017-0893-6 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory |
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| Date: | 1 March 2018 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 793-807 | ||||||
| Volume: | 175 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0031-8116 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16120 |
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