Philosophy Cambridge Mellor Time Book
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D. H. Mellor
Real Time II
D. H. Mellor
London:
Routledge, 1998, pp. xiv+146
This book supersedes Real Time (1981). It uses the tenseless truthmakers of tensed thoughts and statements to show why and how they are both indispensable and irreducible to tenseless thoughts and statements. It rebuts Prior's 'Thank goodness that's over' objection to tenseless theories of time, and discusses the spatial analogues of tensed and tenseless theories. It revives McTaggart's argument against real tense and gives a new tenseless account of change. Lastly it shows why the direction of time must be that of causation, and uses the theory of causation of
The Facts of Causation
to show why there can be no backward time travel or cyclical time.
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Preface Introduction
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2 Events and things 3 Changes and properties 4 Change, difference and identity 5 Properties as relations to times 6 The B-facts of change 7 No experience of the flow of space 2 Changes: events or facts? 3 Causes and effects of changes 4 The causation of stasis 5 In defence of factual causation 2 Causal and temporal order 3 Simultaneous causation 4 Ordering facts, events and times 5 The causal form of inner sense 6 Causation and change 2 Experiencing the direction of time 3 Forward time travel 2 The chances of causation 3 The logical independence of causal facts 4 The impossibility of causal loops Bibliography |
Updated 12 September 2019
