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Ideas of Baron,S/Miller,K, by Text
[Australian, fl. 2019, at Australian universities]
2019
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Intro to the Philosophy of Time
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1.2
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p.12
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22986
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The C-series rejects A and B, and just sees times as order by betweenness, without direction
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1.3
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p.15
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22987
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The past (unlike the future) is fixed, along with truths about it, by the existence of past objects
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1.4
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p.16
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22988
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The block universe theory says entities of all times exist, and time is the B-series
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1.4
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p.19
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22989
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Static time theory presents change as one property at t1, and a different property at t2
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1.5.3
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p.23
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22990
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The moving spotlight says entities can have properties of being present, past or future
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1.6
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p.25
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22991
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How can we know this is the present moment, if other times are real?
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1.6
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p.26
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22992
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If we are actually in the past then we shouldn't experience time passing
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1.7.2
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p.31
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22993
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For abstractionists past times might still exist, althought their objects don't
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1.7.2
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p.33
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22994
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Erzatz Presentism allows the existence of other times, with only the present 'actualised'
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1.8
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p.34
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22995
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Most of the sciences depend on the concept of time
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2.1
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p.39
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22996
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The A-series has to treat being past, present or future as properties
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2.2
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p.40
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22997
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The present moment is a matter of existence, not of acquiring a property
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2.2
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p.40
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22998
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How do presentists explain relations between things existing at different times?
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2.3.1
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p.43
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22999
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It is meaningless to measure the rate of time using time itself, and without a rate there is no flow
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2.3.2
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p.46
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23000
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Vicious regresses force you to another level; non-vicious imply another level
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3.3.1
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p.58
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23001
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The error theory of time's passage says it is either a misdescription or a false inference
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4.2
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p.95
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23002
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In relativity space and time depend on one's motion, but spacetime gives an invariant metric
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5
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p.121
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23003
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Static theories cannot account for time's obvious asymmetry, so time must be dynamic
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5.3.1
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p.130
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23004
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The direction of time is either primitive, or reducible to something else
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5.3.2
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p.132
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23005
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The kaon does not seem to be time-reversal invariant, unlike the rest of nature
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5.3.3
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p.133
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23006
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Maybe the past is just the direction of decreasing entropy
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5.5
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p.136
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23007
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The B-series can have a direction, as long as it does not arise from temporal flow
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5.6
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p.138
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23008
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Grounding is intended as a relation that fits dependences between things
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5.6.1
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p.139
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23009
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There is no second 'law' of thermodynamics; it just reflects probabilities of certain microstates
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5.6.2
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p.142
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23010
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We could explain time's direction by causation: past is the direction of causes, future of effects
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6.1
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p.148
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23011
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Modern accounts of causation involve either processes or counterfactuals
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6.2.2
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p.150
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23013
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The main process theory of causation says it is transference of mass, energy, momentum or charge
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6.2.3
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p.151
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23014
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If causes are processes, what is causation by omission? (Distinguish legal from scientific causes?)
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6.3
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p.157
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23015
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The counterfactual theory of causation handles the problem no matter what causes actually are
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6.5
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p.169
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23016
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Counterfactual theories struggle with pre-emption by a causal back-up system
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7.2.2
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p.181
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23017
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Presentism needs endurantism, because other theories imply most of the object doesn't exist
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7.3.1
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p.182
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23018
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How does a changing object retain identity or have incompatible properties over time?
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8.2
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p.201
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23020
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If a time traveller kills his youthful grandfather, he both exists and fails to exist
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8.3.1
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p.213
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23022
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Presentism means there no existing past for a time traveller to visit
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8.3.1
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p.213
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23023
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How can presentists move to the next future moment, if that doesn't exist?
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8.6
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p.225
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23024
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A traveller takes a copy of a picture into the past, gives it the artist, who then creates the original!
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