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Skow, Bradford,

Objective becoming / Bradford Skow. - Paperback - xi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : time passes? -- The block universe -- What might robust passage be? -- The moving spotlight -- Growing blocks and branching times -- The moving spotlight theory is consistent -- How fast does time pass? -- The challenge from relativity -- Relativity and the passage of time -- Can we move through time? -- Passage and experience, I -- Passage and experience, II -- Concluding thoughts : passage and time-biased preferences.

Examines theories of time that are based on metaphor, especially the moving spotlight theory which holds that "presentness" moves along the series of times from the past into the future, and proposes ways in which the moving spotlight theory may be made compatible with the theory of relativity.

ISBN: 9780198713272 9780198776697 0198776691 0198713274

LCCN: 2014943262

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB4D6314 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 016963798 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Time--Philosophy.
Becoming (Philosophy)
Becoming (Philosophy)
Time--Philosophy.
Zeitbewusstsein
Zeitwahrnehmung

LC Class. No.: BD638 / .S56 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 115