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Eternalism, Temporalism, Neutralism

Authors :
Joshua Dever
Source :
Inquiry. 58:608-618
Publication Year :
2015
Publisher :
Informa UK Limited, 2015.

Abstract

In her Transient Truths (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), Berit Brogaard defends temporalism about proposition content from the more traditional eternalist views. I argue that both temporalism and eternalism are equally capable of accommodating all the data, and thus suggest that we should adopt a neutralism that holds there is no serious or resolvable dispute. Contra Brogaard, I argue that neither disagreement patterns nor belief dynamics favor temporalism over eternalism. I also suggest that Brogaard's defense of operator over quantificational semantics for tense is unnecessary, because quantificational tense semantics can be given a temporalist reading, and operator tense semantics can be given an eternalist reading.

Details

ISSN :
15023923 and 0020174X
Volume :
58
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Inquiry
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........421e028cd47c54c85a79d424009ed89f
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2015.1059112