A Passage Theory of Time

Lipman, Martin A.

doi:10.1093/oso/9780198828198.003.0003

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“…Lipman (2018) argues that any form of fragmentalism that takes tense operators as primitive is not in a position to capture the idea of a genuine passage. The reason is that if present‐tensed facts alone cannot explain the passage from one moment to another, neither they can together with past‐tensed and future‐tensed facts.…”

Section: Flow Fragmentalism Present Existence and The Flow Of Timementioning

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The Invisible Thin Red Line

Torrengo

Iaquinto

2020

Pacific Philosophical Qtr

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The aim of this paper is to argue that the adoption of an unrestricted principle of bivalence is compatible with a metaphysics that (i) denies that the future is real, (ii) adopts nomological indeterminism and (iii) exploits a branching structure to provide a semantics for future contingent claims. To this end, we elaborate what we call Flow Fragmentalism, a view inspired by Kit Fine's non‐standard tense realism, according to which reality is divided up into maximally coherent collections of tensed facts. In this way, we show how to reconcile a genuinely A‐theoretic branching time model with the idea that there is a branch corresponding to the thin red line, that is, the branch that will turn out to be the actual future history of the world.

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Section: Flow Fragmentalism Present Existence and The Flow Of Timementioning

confidence: 99%

“…35 35 Those are major differences with the Lipman (2018) model theory. Given that he defines truth in a model (recursively) in a way that reflects a global conception of negation, the fact that ¬ ϕ constitutes reality only if nowhere in reality it is the case.…”

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The Invisible Thin Red Line

Torrengo

Iaquinto

2020

Pacific Philosophical Qtr

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“…1 See e.g. Correia and Rosenkranz (2012), Lipman (2015Lipman ( , 2016Lipman ( , 2018, and Loss (2017).…”

Section: Fragmentalism and Its Applicationsmentioning

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Is the world a heap of quantum fragments?

Iaquinto

Calosi

2020

Philos Stud

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Fragmentalism was originally introduced as a new A-theory of time. It was further refined and discussed, and different developments of the original insight have been proposed. In a celebrated paper, Jonathan Simon contends that fragmentalism delivers a new realist account of the quantum state-which he calls conservative realism-according to which: (i) the quantum state is a complete description of a physical system, (ii) the quantum (superposition) state is grounded in its terms, and (iii) the superposition terms are themselves grounded in local goings-on about the system in question. We will argue that fragmentalism, at least along the lines proposed by Simon, does not offer a new, satisfactory realistic account of the quantum state. This raises the question about whether there are some other viable forms of quantum fragmentalism.

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“…«Nikk Effingham is sitting» partially constitutes reality at the moment, but later «Nikk Effingham is standing» partially constitutes it. Fragmentalists (Hofweber and Lange 2017;Iaqunito 2019;Lipman 2015Lipman , 2016Lipman , 2018Simon 2018;Torrengo and Iaqunito 2019) deny that facts change-«Nikk Effingham is sitting» and Nikk Effingham is standing» are both constituents of reality. Fragmentalists learn to live with this apparent incoherence by saying that different collections of facts form 'fragments' which make up reality.…”

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Using Wormholes to Solve the Problem of Evil

Effingham

2020

TheoLogica

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The Multiverse Response to the problem of evil has it that God made our universe because God makes every universe meeting a certain standard. The main problem for that response is that there’s no explanation for why God didn’t just keeping making duplicates of perfect universes. This paper introduces the ‘Multiactualities Response’, which says that God actualises every possible world that meets a certain standard of value. It avoids the corresponding problem about duplication because different propositions must always be true at distinct worlds. The Multiactualities Response nevertheless has its own problem, namely that it requires the possibility of multiple actual worlds. This paper argues that if we consider spacetimes with wormholes, we have good cause to think there can be multiple metaphysically privileged present moments; given a suitable analogy between time and modality, it follows that there can be multiple metaphysically privileged (i.e. actual) worlds. This paper includes an in–depth examination of the metaphysics of both the temporal and modal cases.

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A Passage Theory of Time

Cited by 9 publications

References 24 publications

The Invisible Thin Red Line

The Invisible Thin Red Line

Is the world a heap of quantum fragments?

Using Wormholes to Solve the Problem of Evil

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