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Thisness Presentism

Author : David Ingram
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429839200
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Thisness Presentism written by David Ingram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thisness Presentism outlines and defends a novel version of presentism, the view that only present entities exist and what is present really changes, a view of time that captures a real and objective difference between what is past, present, and future, and which offers a model of reality that is dynamic and mutable, rather than static and immutable. The book advances a new defence of presentism by developing a novel ontology of thisness, combining insights about the nature of essence, the metaphysics of propositions, and the relationship between true propositions and the elements of reality that make them true, alongside insights about time itself. It shows how, by accepting an ontology of thisness, presentists can respond to a number of pressing challenges to presentism, including claims that presentism cannot account for true propositions about the past, and that it is inconsistent with the reality of temporal passage and the openness of the future. This is one of the only book-length defences of presentism. It will be of interest to students and scholars working on the debate about presentism in the philosophy of time, as well as those interested in the metaphysics of propositions and truth-making, more generally.

Historical Female Management Theorists

Author : Kristin S. Williams
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1801173923
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Historical Female Management Theorists written by Kristin S. Williams and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging research interrogates the role of management history in the neglect of women and their accomplishments – Williams builds expertly on this research, bridging feminist theory and critical historiography. Historical Female Management Theorists is essential reading for both feminist scholars and management historians.

About Haecceity

Author : Matthew Davidson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040000088
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book About Haecceity written by Matthew Davidson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an in-depth and updated examination of the nature of haecceity—that primitive entity which explains why something is distinct from other things. The book begins by exploring different conceptions of haecceity throughout history. The discussion of various figures across history is important for getting clear on the nature of haecceity and its role in individuation. The next part of the book examines different views about the nature of haecceity. The author defends a view on which haecceities have objects that instantiate them as constituents. Following that, the book considers arguments for and against the existence of haecceities, the epistemology of haecceity, and the distinction between qualitative and non-qualitative properties. About Haecceity will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, logic, and history of philosophy.

Presentism

Author : Sabine Cherenfant
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1534504494
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Presentism written by Sabine Cherenfant and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent wave of statues, building names, and other monuments memorializing figures like Christopher Columbus and Confederate generals being removed from public spaces and college campuses has brought the reassessment of historical figures to the fore. It has raised questions about whom we choose to venerate; how historical narratives form; and whether it is best to erase problematic figures from the historical record, present a new interpretation on them, or attempt to be as unbiased as possible by contemporary attitudes when regarding them. Readers will learn more about this timely and complicated issue through a wide range of perspectives.

Does Tomorrow Exist?

Author : Nikk Effingham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100084563X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Does Tomorrow Exist? written by Nikk Effingham and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes up the question of whether past and future events exist. Two very different views are explored. According to one of these views (presentism), advanced by Nikk Effingham, the present is special. Effingham argues that only present things exist, but which things those are changes as time passes. Given presentism, although there once existed dinosaurs, they exist no more, and although you and I exist, at some time in the future we will come to exist no more. According to the alternative view (eternalism), advanced by Kristie Miller, our world is a giant four-dimensional block of spacetime in which all things, past, present, and future, exist. On this view, dinosaurs exist, it is just that they are not located at the current time. The book considers arguments for and against presentism and eternalism, including arguments that appeal to our best science, to the way the world seems to us to be in our experiences of time, change, and freedom, and to how to make sense of ordinary claims about the past. Key Features: Offers an accessible introduction to the philosophy of temporal ontology Captures the process of philosophical debate, giving readers an insight into the craft of philosophy Engages with and clearly explains state-of-the-art and cutting-edge research

Time And Science (In 3 Volumes)

Author : Remy Lestienne
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1800619995
Total Pages : 1012 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Time And Science (In 3 Volumes) written by Remy Lestienne and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-06-21 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prominent scientists and philosophers of science address contemporary debates on the nature of Time. Their contributions freely discuss its unity and reality, its compatibility with the orders of classical philosophy (present, past and future) and with the disputed idea of free will (Volume 1). They also present a detailed and updated state of the role of Time in the so-called exact sciences: biology — or more precisely genetics, evolution, neurosciences, natural and artificial intelligence (Volume 2) , and physics — relativity, quantum mechanics and quantum gravity, and cosmology (Volume 3).

The Time And Science - Volume 1: Metaphysics Of Time And Its Evolution

Author : Remy Lestienne
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1800613849
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Time And Science - Volume 1: Metaphysics Of Time And Its Evolution written by Remy Lestienne and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, 12 eminent scientists and philosophers engage in fundamental, perennial questions about time: Does time exist? Is 'time' a single or multiple entity? Is it possible to reconcile contradictory notions of time, such as subjective and objective, metaphysics and physics, McTaggart's A series and B series, or presentism and eternalism? Does the Special Theory of Relativity dictate a static, deterministic account of reality ('block universe') or does it allow for 'free will'? How did the concept of geologic time originate and what are the limits of its knowledge? How is the Anthropocene defined? Each author examines these questions from the point of view of their own specialties, but without ignoring the metaphysical importance of the issue, nor the possibility that scientific advances might enforce revisions of our brain intuitive judgments.

Fragmenting Reality

Author : Samuele Iaquinto
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350235342
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Fragmenting Reality written by Samuele Iaquinto and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing interest in fragmentalism is one of the most exciting trends in philosophy of time and is gradually reshaping the contemporary debate. Providing an extensive interpretation of this view, Samuele Iaquinto and Giuliano Torrengo articulate a novel theory of the passage of time and argue that it is the most effective in vindicating the inherent dynamism of reality. Iaquinto and Torrengo offer the first full-range application of fragmentalism to a number of metaphysical topics, including the open future, causation, the A-theoretic interpretation of special relativity and time travel. The resulting picture, they argue, conveys the potential of a radically new understanding of time.

Out of Time

Author : Samuel Baron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192688278
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Out of Time written by Samuel Baron and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that time does not exist is, for many, unthinkable: time must exist. Almost every experience we have tells us so. There has been plenty of debate around what time is like, but not whether it exists. The goal of this book is to make the absence of time thinkable. Time might not exist. Beginning with an empirically flavoured examination of the 'folk' concept of time, the book explores the implications this has for our understanding of agency, and the extent to which our best physics and best metaphysics are compatible with a timeless conception of reality.

Philosophy of Time: The Basics

Author : Graeme Forbes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003830536
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Time: The Basics written by Graeme Forbes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is time? Does it pass? Is the future open? Why do we care? Philosophy of Time: The Basics doesn’t answer these questions. It does give you an opinionated introduction to thinking a bit more deeply about them. Written in a way that assumes no philosophical background from its readers, this book looks at central topics in philosophy of time and shows how they relate to other time-related topics – from theoretical physics (without the maths!) to your own mortality. Additional questions include: In what way is time different to space? How long is the present? Does the Theory of Relativity show time doesn’t pass? What makes time have a direction or ‘arrow’? Can you be harmed by your own death? Allowing the reader to think more deeply about time, this book begins to untangle some of the most difficult knots in all of philosophy. It also provides practical advice to prospective time-travelers.

Truth and the World

Author : Jonathan Tallant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351388509
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Truth and the World written by Jonathan Tallant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we explain the truth of true propositions? Truthmaker theory is the branch of metaphysics that explores the relationships between what is true and what exists. It plays an important role in contemporary debates about the nature of metaphysics and metaphysical enquiry. In this book Jonathan Tallant argues, controversially, that we should reject truthmaker theory. In its place he argues for an 'explanationist' approach. Drawing on a deflationary theory of truth he shows that it allows us to explain the truth of true propositions and respond to recent arguments that purport to show otherwise. He augments this with a distinction between internally and externally quantified claims: externally quantified claims are claims that quantify over elements of our ontology that play an indispensable explanatory role; internally quantified claims do not. He deploys this union of deflationism and a distinction between kinds of quantification to pursue metaphysical inquiry, sketching the implications for a number of first-order debates, including those in the philosophy of time, modality and mathematics, and also shows how this explanationist model can be used to solve the key problems that afflicted truthmaker theory. Truth and the World is an important contribution to debates about truth and truthmaker theory as well as metametaphysics, the metaphysics of time and the metaphysics of mathematics, and is essential reading for students and scholars engaged in the study of these topics.

The Asymmetric Nature of Time

Author : Vincent Grandjean
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031097637
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Asymmetric Nature of Time written by Vincent Grandjean and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access monograph offers a detailed study and a systematic defense of a key intuition we typically have, as human beings, with respect to the nature of time: the intuition that the future is open, whereas the past is fixed. For example, whereas it seems unsettled whether there will be a fourth world war, it is settled that there was a first world war. The book contributes, in particular, three major and original insights. First, it provides a coherent, non-metaphorical, and metaphysically illuminating elucidation of the intuition. Second, it determines which model of the temporal structure of the world is most appropriate to accommodate the intuition, and settles on a specific version of the Growing Block Theory of time (GBT). Third, it puts forward a naturalistic foundation for GBT, by exploiting recent results of our best physics (viz. General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and Quantum Gravity). Three main challenges are addressed: the dismissal of temporal asymmetries as non-fundamental phenomena only (e.g., thermodynamic or causal phenomena), the epistemic objection against GBT, and the apparent tension between GBT and relativistic physics. It is argued that the asymmetry between the open future and the fixed past must be grounded in the temporal structure of the world, and that this is neither precluded by our epistemic device, nor by the latest approaches to Quantum Gravity (e.g., the Causal Set Theory). Aiming at reconciling time as we find it in ordinary experience and time as physics describes it, this innovative book will raise the interest of both academic researchers and graduate students working on the philosophy of time. More generally, it presents contents of interest for all metaphysicians and non-dogmatic philosophers of physics. This is an open access book.

Temporal Urban Design

Author : Filipa Matos Wunderlich
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317080580
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Temporal Urban Design written by Filipa Matos Wunderlich and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Temporal Urban Design: Temporality, Rhythm and Place examines an alternative design approach, focusing on the temporal aesthetics of urban places and the importance of the sense of time and rhythm in the urban environment. The book departs from concerns on the acceleration of cities, its impact on the urban quality of life and the liveability of urban spaces, and questions on what influences the sense of time, and how it expresses itself in the urban environment. From here, it poses the questions: what time is this place and how do we design for it? It offers a new aesthetic perspective akin to music, brings forward the methodological framework of urban place-rhythmanalysis, and explores principles and modes of practice towards better temporal design quality in our cities. The book demonstrates that notions of time have long been intrinsic to planning and urban design research agendas and, whilst learning from philosophy, urban critical theory, and both the natural and social sciences debate on time, it argues for a shift in perspective towards the design of everyday urban time and place timescapes. Overall, the book explores the value of the everyday sense of time and rhythmicity in the urban environment, and discusses how urban designers can understand, analyse and ultimately play a role in the creation of temporally unique, both sensorial and affective, places in the city. The book will be of interest to urban planners, designers, landscape architects and architects, as well as urban geographers, and all those researching within these disciplines. It will also interest students of planning, urban design, architecture, urban studies, and of urban planning and design theory.

A Case for Necessitarianism

Author : Amy Karofsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000529738
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A Case for Necessitarianism written by Amy Karofsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-29 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first detailed and focused defense of necessitarianism. The author’s original account of necessitarianism encourages a reexamination of commonly held metaphysical positions as well as important issues in other, related areas of philosophy. Necessitarianism is the view that absolutely nothing about the world could have been otherwise in any way, whatsoever. Most philosophers believe that necessitarianism is just plain false and presume that some things could have been otherwise than what they are. In this book, the author argues that necessitarianism is true and the view that some things in the world are contingent—what the author terms contingentarianism—is false. The author assesses various theories of contingency, including the possible worlds theory, combinatorialism, and dispositionalism, and argues that no theory can successfully explain why an entity is such as it is rather than not. She then lays out a case for necessitarianism and provides responses to various objections. The book concludes with an explanation of the ways in which necessitarianism is relevant to issues in ethics, philosophy of mind, and social philosophy. A Case for Necessitarianism will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of science.

What Truth Is

Author : Mark Jago
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192557114
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book What Truth Is written by Mark Jago and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Jago presents and defends a novel theory of what truth is, in terms of the metaphysical notion of truthmaking. This is the relation which holds between a truth and some entity in the world, in virtue of which that truth is true. By coming to an understanding of this relation, he argues, we gain better insight into the metaphysics of truth. The first part of the book discusses the property being true, and how we should understand it in terms of truthmaking. The second part focuses on truthmakers, the worldly entities which make various kinds of truths true, and how they do so. Jago argues for a metaphysics of states of affairs, which account for things having properties and standing in relations. The third part analyses the logic and metaphysics of the truthmaking relation itself, and links it to the metaphysical concept of grounding. The final part discusses consequences of the theory for language and logic. Jago shows how the theory delivers a novel and useful theory of propositions, the entities which are true or false, depending on how things are. A notable feature of this approach is that it avoids the Liar paradox and other puzzling paradoxes of truth.

The Open Future

Author : Patrick Todd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192652761
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Open Future written by Patrick Todd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are all False, Patrick Todd launches a sustained defense of a radical interpretation of the doctrine of the open future. He argues that all claims about undetermined aspects of the future are simply false. Todd argues that this theory is metaphysically more parsimonius than its rivals, and that objections to its logical and practical coherence are much overblown. Todd shows how proponents of this view can maintain classical logic, and argues that the view has substantial advantages over Ockhamist, supervaluationist, and relativist alternatives. Todd draws inspiration from theories of ''neg-raising'' in linguistics, from debates about omniscience within the philosophy of religion, and defends a crucial comparison between his account of future contingents and certain more familiar theories of counterfactuals. Further, Todd defends his theory of the open future from the charges that it cannot make sense of our practices of betting, makes our credences regarding future contingents unintelligible, and is at odds with proper norms of assertion. In the end, in Todd's classical open future, we have a compelling new solution to the longstanding "problem of future contingents".

From Divine Timemaker to Divine Watchmaker

Author : R.T. Mullins
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040172172
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book From Divine Timemaker to Divine Watchmaker written by R.T. Mullins and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-24 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the most extensive exploration of divine temporality to date. It focuses on five main questions. First, what is time? Second, how is God responsible for the existence of time? Third, what does it mean to say that God is temporal? Fourth, what kind of structure might God give to a time series? Fifth, what are the implications for theological doctrines such as the Trinity, creation, providence, and life after death? The author offers a deep, critical engagement with the Christian tradition but also goes beyond to build analytic bridges to Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, and Jainist philosophical theology. The book provides an up-to-date discussion of issues within analytic metaphysics, philosophy of time, and philosophy of religion and draws on the resources of contemporary systematic, historical, and biblical theology.