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A Defeating Objection to Dynamic Block Theories of Time

Author(s) -

Lee Barry

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

thought: a journal of philosophy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.429

H-Index - 8

ISSN - 2161-2234

DOI - 10.1002/tht3.209

Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , block (permutation group theory) , epistemology , philosophy , variation (astronomy) , moment (physics) , mathematics , physics , medicine , geometry , classical mechanics , astrophysics

McTaggart's argument against the reality of the A series (or some variation on that argument) poses a serious problem for the moving‐now block theory of time ( MNBT ). A defender of MNBT can respond along lines suggested by Broad: by denying that we should understand ‘ e was present’ as saying that e is present at some past moment t . There is, however, a serious—plausibly defeating—objection to this type of response: it implicitly denies a non‐negotiable platitude about time. As a result, MNBT is not tenable. Growing block theories are also defeated by a similar objection.

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