Presentism and Einstein's Train of Thought: Reply to Brogaard and Marlow.
It has been widely held that presentism cannot easily accommodate Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (SR) account of the relativity of simultaneity because presentism privileges successively unique times ontologically. Recently Brogaard and Marlow (Analysis 73:635-642, ) argued that presentism...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 80; no. 5; pp. 1023 - 1030 |
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