... by offering the first thorough assessment of the objection. It argues that different metaphysical stances, such as presentism and three- and four-dimensionalism, provide different ways of undermining the objection. Monster Objection standard mereology hylomorphism presentism three- and four-dimensionalism...

... potential in the present. Such an approach to the future, for Bloch, must be guided by what he calls ‘militant optimism’ or simply true hope. Hope is thus not only individually or psychologically valuable, it is also political in the sense that it is necessary to achieve social changes...

... of an actual infinite. In the present paper, we show that, even given a dynamic theory of time, the cardinality of an endless series of events, each of which will occur, is the same as that of a beginningless series of events, each of which has occurred. Both are denumerably infinite. So if (as we believe...

... indistinguishable from the original. Special relativity treats reality as a four-dimensional tapestry. We might worry that this is enough by itself to make it inconsistent with presentism (and maybe the growing block theory), but this isn’t obvious. A physical theory may decide to treat time as a four-dimensional...

.... For whether a view is motivated is a highly contextual matter: if a view presently lacks motivation, it may well be motivated later. Yet if the view is shown to be inconsistent, then no motivation for it will be dialectically effective. (5) Always, for all times t, at t, t...

... d’historicité. Présentisme et expériences du temps (Paris: Le Seuil, 2003). 46 See, Tzvetan Todorov, Les abus de la mémoire (Paris: Arléa, 1995). An example can be found in the Soviet Union with the film The Fall of Berlin by Mikheil Chiaureli (USSR, 1950), which also featured...

... a dark secret, lurking at the core of upstanding presentism. This secret will be exploited to demonstrate that all presentists should turn themselves over to the nefarious side. ⁸ But suppose that (A) is followed by: (B*) The rose is green (not red) and then the rose is dead . The progression...

.... $45.00. © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected] 2015 historiography presentism bio-history historicity anachronism If we have science, do we really need history? Or perhaps to put the question another...

... of Chicago Press, 2014. 352 pp., illus. $35.00 © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected] 2015 consumerism presentism consumption modernity determinism To scholars tempted to purchase or read this book...

... Relativism and Monadic Truth 2009 Oxford Oxford University Press Crisp TM Loux MJ Zimmerman D Presentism The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics 2003 Oxford Oxford University Press 211 45 Crisp TM Craig WL Smith Q Presentism, eternalism and relativity physics...

...Jonathan Tallant Presentism A-theory Rasmussen © The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Analysis Trust. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected] 2012 Abstract In this article I offer a new version of presentism...

...Richard Meek Abstract This article explores current debates in Shakespeare studies regarding the claims of historicism and presentism. The article focuses upon Cymbeline and its fascination with the ways in which our attempts both to reconstruct the past and to understand the present...

...Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s oeuvre has been historicized, and rightly so, but Freeman’s texts also resonate with our present. This chapter stakes out a third position between the injunction to only historicize and the pitfalls of presentism. It reads Freeman as untimely...

... the relationship between past, present and future is thematized. This chapter finds its premises in these very redefinitions to then focus, in the first part, on the key element of modern temporal horizons: the ideology of progress. This ideology transforms the future into a time open to continuous...

... as against the death-drive that anti-social queer theory celebrates as queer. marriage same sex relationships United States Butler Judith Duggan Lisa Warner Michael feminist scholarship queer theory Romeo and Juliet Burt Richard Freccero Carla Goldberg Jonathan Radel Nicholas presentism...

.... Contrasting theories in the metaphysics of time are considered, such as presentism (the view that only the present is real) and the B-theory (the view that our experience as of the passage of time merely reflects our temporal perspective), and the question raised whether the argument for sense data based...

...This article reviews three distinct approaches (presentism, utilitarianism, and rights-based ethics) to address the important issues of intergenerational justice that arise in the evaluation of climate stabilization policies. Presentism is an ethical framework that emphasizes the interests...

... with two of its generic others: the news and prayer as representing two widely divergent positions on a broad discursive spectrum. How do modern and contemporary American poems that engage with the news respond to journalism's mimeticism, presentism, and transparency? How do poems that adapt prayer respond...

... anachronism presentism empire Shakespeare Alberico Gentili international law war crime historiography Is Shakespeare’s Henry V a war criminal? The question provides the arch title of John Sutherland and Cedric Watts’ 2000 book of Shakespearean puzzles, but considered earnestly it tends...

... principatu Salamonius Burke Edmund Condorcet Hobbes Thomas Jefferson Thomas Madison James Rousseau Jean Jacques Geneva Manuscript Rousseau Kant Immanuel Metaphysics of Morals Kant Marxism Nozick Robert Locke John Rawls John time political theory political obligation duration presentism...