Change, cause and contradiction : a defence of the tenseless theory of time
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Change, cause and contradiction : a defence of the tenseless theory of time
（Macmillan studies in contemporary philosophy）
Macmillan in association with the Scots Philosophical Club, 1991
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Macmillan series in contemporary philosophy
内容説明・目次
内容説明
A study of philosophical theories of time and causation and their implications for our concept of change. The author argues that the belief in the idea that the passing of time can make possible genuine change is fundamentally mistaken. The text discusses the view that time passing is incoherent and that genuine change can be accounted for by appealing to its links with causality. In the course of developing an original thoery of change, the book discusses such issues as temporal solipism, simultaneous and backwards causation, closed time and time without change.
目次
- Part 1 Tense and change: two accounts of change
- the problem. Part 2 Tense and contradiction: McTaggart's paradox
- objections and defence
- the racial solution. Part 3 Temporal solipsism: Prior's doctrines
- pathological cases of identity
- instants and anti-realism
- a paradox of cardinality
- the propositional theory of instants. Part 4 Temporal parts: the objections
- understanding temporal parts
- the problem of the temporal determinant. Part 5 Tenseless change: constraints on an account
- first attempts
- the causality constraint. Part 6 Causation and simultaneity: the principle of reciprocity
- historical antecedents of R
- the proof of non-simultaneity
- modal properties of R
- time without change. Part 7 Causal and temporal priority: the priority of time
- causal priority and counterfactuals
- causal priority and probability
- Ehring's condition. Part 8 A causal account of change: the account
- change and the causal theory of time
- backwards causation.
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