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Full Idea
The standard block universe theory combines EntityEverywhenism with the B-theory of time.
Gist of Idea
The block universe theory says entities of all times exist, and time is the B-series
Source
Baron,S/Miller,K (Intro to the Philosophy of Time [2019], 1.4)
Book Ref
Baron,S/Miller,K: 'Introduction to the Philosophy of Time' [Polity 2019], p.16
A Reaction
This is also known as 'eternalism'. These authors emphasise that there is an ontological commitment to the objects of past and future in eternalism, as well as the B-series view of the moments of time.
Related Ideas
Idea 22987 The past (unlike the future) is fixed, along with truths about it, by the existence of past objects [Baron/Miller]
Idea 22986 The C-series rejects A and B, and just sees times as order by betweenness, without direction [Baron/Miller]
| 15202 | Eternity coexists with passing time, as the centre of a circle coexists with its circumference [Aquinas] |
| 8197 | Maybe past (which affects us) and future (which we can affect) are both real [Dummett] |
| 15024 | The spotlight theorists accepts eternal time, but with a spotlight of the present moving across it [Sider] |
| 17960 | Eternalism says all times are equally real, and future and past objects and properties are real [Merricks] |
| 14020 | 'Eternalism' is the thesis that reality includes past, present and future entities [Crisp,TM] |
| 15104 | The 'moving spotlight' theory makes one time privileged, while all times are on a par ontologically [Cameron] |
| 19026 | If time is symmetrical between past and future, why do they look so different? [Vetter] |
| 22988 | The block universe theory says entities of all times exist, and time is the B-series [Baron/Miller] |