Time and realism : metaphysical and antimetaphysical perspectives / Yuval Dolev.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dolev, Yuval, author.

Series:

Representation and mind

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 237 pages).

Other Title:

MIT Press CogNet.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2007]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A new view of the metaphysics of time, arguing that the traditional tensed-tenseless debate within analytic philosophy should be seen as the first stage in a philosophical investigation of time, and that the next stage belongs to phenomenology.

Contents:

1 Time and Philosophy 1

1.1 Time and Zeit 1

1.2 Tense and Tenselessness 4

2 Time's Supposed lllusoriness 17

2.1 The Logical Argument 18

2.2 The Metaphysical Argument 22

2.3 The Empirical Argument 25

2.4 The Relationship Between the Three Arguments 29

2.5 Tense in a Tenseless World 31

3 Time's Supposed Concreteness 37

3.1 The "Moving Now" 38

3.2 Solipsism of the Present Moment 44

4 Tense Beyond Ontology 59

4.1 The Emergence of Ontology 60

4.2 Incoherence of Joint Uses of "Real" 67

4.3 The Myth of Tenseless Relations 79

4.4 Delusions of lllusions 95

4.5 The Collapse of Dummett's Solipsism 102

4.6 The "Now" Moves to an Impasse 109

4.7 Transcending Ontology 113

5 Time-As Seen from a Post-Ontological Perspective 117

5.1 The Duration of the Present 117

5.2 The Presence of Experience 129

5.3 The Pastness of Remembered Experiences 146

5.4 Time's Passage 155

5.5 Tense-based Biases 171

5.6 The Future's Openness; The Past's Fixity 183

5.7 Relativity Theory 195

6 Post-Post-Ontological Epilogue 209

6.1 Retrospective Overview 209

6.2 Augustine's Confession 211

6.3 How to Continue 212.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-234) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Dolev, Yuval. Time and realism.

ISBN:

9780262271844

0262271842

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