Temporal Fictionalism for a Timeless World.

Current debate in the metaphysics of time ordinarily assumes that we should be realists about time. Recently, however, a number of physicists and philosophers of physics have proposed that time will play no role in a completed theory of quantum gravity. This paper defends fictionalism about temporal...

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Publicado en:Philosophy & Phenomenological Research Vol. 102; no. 2; pp. 281 - 302
Autores principales: Baron, Sam, Miller, Kristie, Tallant, Jonathan
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2021
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          Department of Philosophy, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
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          Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, Sydney, UK
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