Eternalism - Argumenta - Journal of Analytic Philosophy https://www.argumenta.org Journal of Analytic Philosophy Sun, 02 Mar 2025 17:02:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 Is Presentism Morally More Desirable than Eternalism? A Dialogue https://www.argumenta.org/article/is-presentism-morally-more-desirable-than-eternalism-a-dialogue/ Sun, 02 Mar 2025 17:02:14 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=2459 In current philosophy of time there are two main competing ontologies (cf. Emery, Markosian, and Sullivan 2024). One is eternalism, according to which, objects and events of all times equally exist (tenselessly speaking), regardless of whether they are past, present or future. Its most popular version is the so-called B-theory, wherein there is no objective […]

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]]> The Affective and Practical Consequences of Presentism and Eternalism https://www.argumenta.org/article/the-affective-and-practical-consequences-of-presentism-and-eternalism/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:59:37 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=2103 Despite the recent flurry of papers dealing with the relationship between presentism and eternalism and our temporally oriented attitudes, the affective dimensions of the debate have been somewhat neglected. To clarify my main aim, which is to study and make explicit these dimensions, it is important to state at the outset what the presupposition and […]

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]]> A Regional Scientific Image of Time [Special Issue] https://www.argumenta.org/article/a-regional-scientific-image-of-time-special-issue/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 15:05:25 +0000 https://www.argumenta.org/?post_type=article&p=1926 Though we have a partially clear perception of space, Augustine’s famous quotation certifies that time is much more elusive (Confessions XI, 14). Even in our best scientific theories, time is something quite variegated. In classical and quantum non-relativistic mechanics, time stays in the background as an independent variable. In relativistic physics, on the other hand, […]

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