Temporal B-Coming
Passage without Presentness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21293732 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Leininger (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 130-147 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australasian Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-8402 • E-ISSN: 1470-6828 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00048402.2020.1744673 |
| OpenAlex | W3018562042 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 32 |
It is taken as obvious that there is a conflict between objective temporal passage and relativistic physics. The traditional formulation of temporal passage is the movement of a universe-wide set of simultaneous events known as the NOW; the Special Theory of Relativity (STR) implies that there is no NOW and therefore no temporal passage. The vast majority of those who accept the B-theory blockworld—the metaphysics of time most friendly to relativistic physics—deny that time passes. I argue that this denial is a mistake. Contrary to overwhelmingly popular opinion, temporal passage does not need a NOW. To show this, I defend a relational understanding of temporal becoming, that I call B-coming, in which an event y B-comes with respect to x iff Rxy. Temporal passage is then the difference in what has B-come at one point in a thing’s history with respect to what has B-come at an earlier point in that thing’s history. Appealing to this kind of relation is a strategy that is well-known but has been widely dismissed. This dismissal is premature; I show that the essential elements of temporal passage do not necessarily require a NOW. There can be passage without presentness
Astrophysics · Denial · Epistemology · Event (particle physics) · Metaphysics · Mistake · Physics · Psychoanalysis · Relation (database) · Theoretical physics · Biofield Effects and Biophysics · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Quantum Mechanics and Applications · Relativity and Gravitational Theory
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How Fast Does Time Pass
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |