There is a widespread idea that we experience our world as if it is
other than a block world; as if, instead, our world is dynamical and
time passes in a robustly A-theoretic manner. In light of this, some
argue that there is good reason to think that our world is robustly
dynamical, for the best explanation of our having these various
experiences is that we are experiencing time as it really is, in
itself, as dynamical. Thus, there is a kind of inference to the best
explanation from the nature of our experience, broadly construed, to
the conclusion that our world is not a block. This book takes up the
challenge of responding to this argument in its various guises, where
these guises reflect the different ways that we might be said to
experience time (whether in terms of our attitudes, our beliefs, our
temporal preferences, or our perceptual experiences). By appealing to
new empirical work undertaken at the Centre for Time in Sydney, it is
argued that for a whole range of ways that we experience our world
temporally, including attitudinally, preference-wise, belief-wise, and
perception-wise, we experience the world just as it is: as a block
world. There is, at the end of the day, no pressure to conclude that
our world is dynamical via the nature of any of our experiences of the
world.
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A Defence of the Block Universe Theory
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780198875871
Publisert
2026
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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