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The real but dead past: a reply to Braddon-Mitchell
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The authors argued that the Past is Dead hypothesis is not tenable if combined with Special Relativity and that, on the contrary, special Relativity supports No Futurism or Presentism at the expense of the Parmenidean position that past and future are both real.Abstract:
In 'How do we know it is now now?' David Braddon-Mitchell (2004) develops an objection to No Futurism (also known as the Growing Block theory) that the past is real but the future is not.1 He notes my response to this, namely that the past, although real, is lifeless and (a fortiori?) lacking in sentience. He argues, however, that this response, which I call the Past is Dead hypothesis is not tenable if combined with Special Relativity. My purpose in this reply is to argue that, on the contrary, Special Relativity supports No Futurism or Presentism at the expense of the Parmenidean position that past and future are both real.read more
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How do we know it is now now
TL;DR: The growing salami view as discussed by the authors is a theory of time that shares features of four dimensionalism with an account of the genuine passage of time to be attractive, and it has been used to defend a view that has at least these features in common.
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When am I? A Tense Time for Some Tense Theorists?
TL;DR: In this article, the present problem has been addressed in the literature on time, namely how we can know that we are present and not past (or future) in the sense that the present is privileged.