Real Time IIReal Time II extends and evolves DH Mellor's classic exploration of the philosophy of time,Real Time. This new book answers such basic metaphysical questions about time as: how do past, present and future differ, how are time and space related, what is change, is time travel possible? His Real Time dominated the philosophy of time for fifteen years. Real TIme II will do the same for the next twenty. GET /english/edu/Studying_at_SU/History_of_Literature.html HTTP/1.0 |
Contents
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Truths and truthmakers | 19 |
2 Temporal truthmakers | 23 |
Tokens and times | 29 |
5 A growing Bworld? | 81 |
Change | 84 |
2 Events and things | 85 |
3 Changes and properties | 87 |
4 Change difference and identity | 89 |
5 Properties as relations to times | 90 |
6 The Bfacts of change | 93 |
7 No experience of the flow of space | 95 |
2 Tokenreflexives | 31 |
3 Here be no tokens | 32 |
4 Necessary pasts and possible futures | 34 |
5 Complex Apropositions | 35 |
The presence of experience | 39 |
2 Thank goodness thats over | 40 |
3 The necessary presence of experience | 42 |
4 A Btheory of our times | 45 |
Time and space | 47 |
3 The Btheory of Aspace | 50 |
4 The difference between time and space | 51 |
5 Relativity | 53 |
6 Relativity and the present | 56 |
Thinking in time | 58 |
2 Ameanings and Btruthconditions | 62 |
3 Actions and beliefs | 64 |
4 Experiencing the flow of time | 66 |
McTaggart s proof | 70 |
2 The contradiction in the flow of time | 72 |
3 In defence of McTaggart | 75 |
4 McTaggart and truthconditions | 78 |
Events facts and causation | 97 |
events or facts? | 98 |
3 Causes and effects of changes | 99 |
4 The causation of stasis | 100 |
5 In defence of factual causation | 101 |
Causation and time | 105 |
2 Causal and temporal order | 106 |
3 Simultaneous causation | 108 |
4 Ordering facts events and times | 111 |
5 The causal form of inner sense | 114 |
6 Causation and change | 115 |
The direction of time | 118 |
2 Experiencing the direction of time | 122 |
3 Forward time travel | 123 |
The linearity of time | 125 |
2 The chances of causation | 128 |
3 The logical independence of causal facts | 131 |
4 The impossibility of causal loops | 132 |
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A-beliefs A-propositions A-scale A-sentences A-statements A-times of events action answer B-facts B-moment B-places B-scale B-sentences B-series B-theorists B-theory B-times B-truth-conditions B-truthmakers backward causation backward time travel beliefs Cambridge causal loops causal order causes and effects chances changeable properties chapter 1.5 clock contradiction cooling D. H. Mellor defined deny distinguish earlier or later earlier-later entail entities events or facts exist explain flow G-events give hence incompatible properties Jim races tomorrow Jim's June land heads located logically independent McTaggart's proof mean namely now-beliefs obvious pain is past particular possible presence of experience present and future present or future propositions question reference frame saw in chapter sense sentences Similarly Sirius Snow is white space spacetime spatial analogue special relativity tc-functions tell tense tense logic token-reflexive tokens true or false truth conditions truth value truthmakers vary wholly present world line