The Metaphysics of Time

1902 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 372
Author(s):  
Walter Smith
Keyword(s):  
Metaphysics Of Time

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
First Century ◽  
Philosophical Theology ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Modern Thought ◽  
Metaphysics Of Time ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Impact

This Conclusion draws the study to a close, and recounts its developmental theses. The first thesis is that the complexity of positions on time (and space) defended in early modern thought is hugely under-appreciated. An enormous variety of positions were defended during this period, going far beyond the well-known absolutism–relationism debate. The second thesis is that during this period three distinct kinds of absolutism can be found in British philosophy: Morean, Gassendist, and Newtonian. The chapter concludes with a few notes on the impact of absolutism within and beyond philosophy: on twenty-first-century metaphysics of time; and on art, geology, and philosophical theology.

The Sea Fight Tomorrow

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald C. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensions ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Metaphysics Of Time ◽  
Manifold Theory ◽  
Dimensions Of Space

This chapter is the first of this book to deal specifically with the metaphysics of time. This chapter defends the pure manifold theory of time. On this view, time is just another dimension of extent like the three dimensions of space, the past, present, and future are equally real, and the world is at bottom tenseless. What is true is eternally true. For example, it is now true that there will be a sea fight tomorrow or that there will not be a sea fight tomorrow. It is argued that the pure manifold theory does not entail fatalism and that contingent statements about the future do not imply that only the past and present exist.

scholarly journals Appropriate emotions and the metaphysics of time

2017 ◽  
Vol 175 (8) ◽  
pp. 1945-1961 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olley Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Metaphysics Of Time

Metaphysics of Time II

2021 ◽  
pp. 58-83
Author(s):  
Sean Enda Power
Keyword(s):  
Metaphysics Of Time

The Romantic Metaphysics of Time

1980 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Richard Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Metaphysics Of Time

Lecture 3: The Metaphysics of Time

2003 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-53
Author(s):  
Michael Dummett ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Metaphysics Of Time

On the Metaphysics of Time and Divine Eternality

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Keith Loftin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Metaphysics Of Time

Musical Minimalism and the Metaphysics of Time

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 1267-1306
Author(s):  
Nemesio García-Carril Puy
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Musical Work ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Phenomenal Knowledge ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
Static View ◽  
Metaphysics Of Time ◽  
Musical Context ◽  
In Virtue Of

I defend in this paper the thesis that there is a complex relation between minimalist musical works and the metaphysics of time, involving ontological, epistemological and axiological issues. This relation is explained by means of three sub-theses. The first one is that minimalist musical works literally exemplify –in Goodman’s sense– the properties ascribed to time by the metaphysical static view: 1) minimalist works intrinsically possess those properties by being composed according to the technique of minimal repetition; 2) they extrinsically refer to those properties in virtue of pragmatic processes of accommodation of disagreements on what is taken to be common ground in a particular musical context. The second sub-thesis is that, in exemplifying those properties, minimalist musical works are valuable from two perspectives: a formalist one, according to which minimalist works purify the concept of what a musical work is; and a cognitive one, insofar they allow us to obtain phenomenal knowledge of what it is like to experience time as the static view conceives it. The third sub-thesis is that each particular minimalist musical work is valuable insofar it achieves either the formalist or the cognitive goals in an original way.

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