Goldilocks and the Three Metaphysics of TimeGraeme A Forbes (University of Kent at Canterbury)
part of:
Updating Reality: Dynamism in the Philosophy of Time
February 25, 2014, 9:30am - 11:00am
School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent at Canterbury
Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield
34 Gell Street,
Sheffield S3 7QY
United Kingdom
Sponsor(s):
- Mind Association
Organisers:
Charlotte Alderwick
University of Sheffield
Graeme A Forbes
University of Kent at Canterbury
Eric Olson
University of Sheffield
Stephen Wright
University of Sheffield
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Abstract:
In this talk, I discuss three promising strategies found in the literature for developing and defending a substantial metaphysics of time, which I will call the settling dynamic view, that has the following two commitments: (1) the present has a privileged status, and (2) there is a modal asymmetry between the past and the future, in the sense that the future is open, thought the past is not. After introducing and motivating these three approaches, I argue that only one approach is adequate to the task.
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