Nothing To Come A Defence of the Growing Block Theory of Time /

This monograph is a detailed study, and systematic defence, of the Growing Block Theory of time (GBT), first conceived by C.D. Broad. The book offers a coherent, logically perspicuous and ideologically lean formulation of GBT, defends it against the most notorious objections to be found in the extan...

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Main Author: Correia, Fabrice (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 395
Subjects:
Analysis (Philosophy).
Space sciences.
Mathematical physics.
Logic.
Physics.
ISBN:9783319787046
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Taking Tense Seriously
  • Chapter 2. Existence, Quantification and Identity
  • Chapter 3. Temporal Relations
  • Chapter 4. The Growing Block
  • Chapter 5. The Other Contenders
  • Chapter 6. The Epistemic Objection
  • Chapter 7. Bivalence, Future Contingents and the Open Future
  • Chapter 8. Classical Theories of Time, and Relativity
  • Chapter 9. Spatiotemporaryism. .

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