Time Language and Ontology The World from the B Theoretic Perspective 1st Edition by M Joshua Mozersky ISBN 0198718160 9780198718161

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ISBN 10: 0198718160
ISBN 13: 9780198718161
Author: M Joshua Mozersky

Time Language and Ontology The World from the B Theoretic Perspective 1st Edition Table of contents:

1: Introduction: Time, tense, and the objective conception

2: The reality of the future

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Preliminaries

2.3 The empty future model

2.4 The branching future model

2.4.1 Ersatz branches

2.4.2 Branch attrition and contextual truth

2.5 More on the truth-value links

2.6 Conclusion

3: Restricting reality to the present

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Tense and presentism

3.3 The grounding objection

3.3.1 Property presentism

3.3.2 Ersatz times

3.3.3 Haecceities

3.3.4 Epistemic presentism

3.3.5 Will quasi-truth do the trick?

3.4 More on truthmaking and grounding

3.5 Skow´s moving spotlight

3.6 No unified reality: Kit Fine´s `nonstandard´ realism about tense

3.7 Conclusion

3.8 Review and preview

4: Tensed predicates

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Tense and truth conditions

4.3 Tense and translation

4.4 Tensed predicates and entailment relations

4.5 Tenseless predicates and entailment relations

4.6 Some advantages of the date theory over the token-reflexive theory

4.7 The referential-attributive distinction and the tensed copula

4.8 The B-theory and the truth-value links

4.9 Conclusion

5: Experience and the present

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The problem

5.3 Indexicals, linguistic meaning, and semantics

5.4 Indexicals, perception, and causation

5.5 Externalism, tense, and content

5.6 Semantic objections

5.7 Conclusion

6: Objects and times

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Temporal predication: the contenders

6.3 The relational account of temporal predication

6.4 Objections and alternatives

6.4.1 Lewis´s objection

6.4.2 Logical form and validity

6.4.3 Mellor´s `locational´ theory

6.4.4 The intensional account

6.5 Change and pseudo-change

6.6 A note on relational vs. substantive theories of time

6.7 Conclusion

7: Temporal parts

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Temporal parts and spatial-temporal analogies

7.3 Three-dimensionalism

7.4 Three-dimensional objects and `paradoxes´ of composition and coincidence

7.4.1 Coinciding entities

7.4.2 Undetached parts

7.4.3 Fission and fusion

7.4.4 Some tentative conclusions

7.5 The argument from vagueness

7.6 Conclusion

8: The B-theory and the passage of time

8.1 The passage of time

8.2 The direction of time

8.3 General summary and conclusion

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