Nothing to Come : A Defence of the Growing Block Theory of Time, Hardcover by...

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Nothing to Come : A Defence of the Growing Block Theory of Time, Hardcover by Correia, Fabrice; Rosenkranz, Sven, ISBN 3319787039, ISBN-13 9783319787039, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK This monograph is a detailed study, and systematic defence, of the Growing Block Theory of time (GBT), first conceived by . Broad. Th offers a coherent, logically perspicuous and ideologically lean formulation of GBT, defends it against the most notorious objections to be found in the extant philosophical literature, and shows how it can be derived from a more general theory, consistent with relativistic spacetime, on the pre-relativistic assumption of an absolute and total temporal order. The authors devise axiomatizations of GBT and its competitors which, against the backdrop of a shared quantified tense logic, significantly improves the prospects of their comparative assessment. Importantly, neither of these axiomatizations involves commitment to properties of presentness, pastness or futurity. The authors proceed to address, and defuse, a number of objections that have been marshaled against GBT, including the so-called epistemic objection according to which the theory invites skepticism about our temporal location. The challenge posed by relativistic physics is met head-on, by replacing claims about temporal variation by claims about variation across spacetime. Th aims to achieve the greatest possible rigor. The background logic is set out in detail, as are the principles governing the

• ISBN: 9783319787039
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