TY  - BOOK
AU  - Skow,Bradford
TI  - Objective becoming
SN  - 9780198713272
AV  - BD638 .S56 2015
U1  - 115 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Time
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Becoming (Philosophy)
KW  - fast
KW  - Zeitbewusstsein
KW  - gnd
KW  - Zeitwahrnehmung
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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