1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910572195203321

Autore

Slavov Matias

Titolo

Relational passage of time / / Matias Slavov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2023

New York : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2022

ISBN

1-00-322423-7

1-003-22423-7

1-000-63520-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (148 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Routledge Studies in Metaphysics

Disciplina

115

Soggetti

Time

Relationism

Time perception

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Relational, not substantial passage -- Relational passage is neither trivial nor question-begging -- Passage is directed -- We experience and misconceive passage -- Passage is not a fiction -- Time passes amidst perduring objects.

Sommario/riassunto

This book defends a relational theory of the passage of time. The realist view of passage developed in this book differs from the robust, substantivalist position. According to relationism, passage is nothing over and above the succession of events, one thing coming after another. Causally related events are temporally arranged as they happen one after another along observers' worldlines. There is no unique global passage but a multiplicity of local passages of time. After setting out this positive argument for relationism, the author deals with five common objections to it: (a) triviality of deflationary passage, (b) a-directionality of passage, (c) the impossibility of experiencing passage, (d) fictionalism about passage, and (e) the incompatibility of passage with perduring objects. Relational Passage of Time will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of time, metaphysics, and philosophy of physics.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910139028203321

Autore

Hochberg Herbert

Titolo

Relations and predicates / / Herbert Hochberg, Kevin Mulligan (eds.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2004

ISBN

3-11-032685-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis ; ; 11

Philosophische Analyse ; ; Bd. 11

Altri autori (Persone)

HochbergHerbert

MulliganKevin

Disciplina

100

Soggetti

Prediction (Logic)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- Absurd Claims / Gustafsson, Lars -- Relations, Properties and Particulars / Hochberg, Herbert -- Predication Theory: Classical vs Modern / Angelelli, Ignacio -- Bareness, as in '"Bare" Particulars': Its Ubiquity / Wilson, Fred -- Objects as Hierarchical Structures: A Comprehensive Ontology / Mertz, D. W. -- The Ontological Problem of Order / Tegtmeier, Erwin -- On the Transitivity of the Parthood Relations / Johansson, Ingvar -- Warum es die Früher-Später Beziehung nicht gibt / Kanzian, Christian -- Tropes and Relations / Trettin, Käthe -- Once More: Bradleyan Regresses / Schnieder, Benjamin -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Interest in the age-old problems of universals and individuation has received a new impetus from the current revival of ontology in the analytic tradition, the development of theories of individual properties (and the related application of mereological calculi to the analysis of predication), and the particular problems posed by relational predication and the nature of particulars. The essays explore aspects of the history of the issues and attempt to deal with the issues and with challenges to the distinctions that give rise to them. They continue the debates stemming from the revival of met