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The Growing-Block: Just one thing after another?
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Springer, 2016.
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Abstract
- In this article, we consider two independently appealing theories—the Growing-Block view and Humean Supervenience—and argue that at least one is false. The Growing-Block view is a theory about the nature of time. It says that (a) past and present things exist, while future things do not, and (b) the passage of time consists in new things coming into existence. Humean Supervenience is a theory about the nature of entities like laws, nomological possibility, counterfactuals, dispositions, causation, and chance. It says that none of these entities are fundamental, since if there were, this would entail the existence of irreducible necessary connections between matters of fact. Instead, these entities supervene on a fundamental, nonnomological “Humean mosaic” of property instances at spacetime points. We will further explain and motivate the Growing-Block view and Humean Supervenience in sections 2 and 3, but first, we turn to our master argument.
- Subjects :
- Philosophy of mind
Property (philosophy)
Counterfactual conditional
Philosophy
05 social sciences
Philosophy of space and time
Metaphysics
06 humanities and the arts
050905 science studies
0603 philosophy, ethics and religion
Supervenience
BD
Epistemology
060302 philosophy
0509 other social sciences
Causation
Master argument
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00318116
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ab20073f88b991657e143bf78d38d1d3