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Abstract Does the temporal fragmentarism that runs counter to the constitution imply the non-reality of time? It is possible to take up the problem of unreality from the contradiction of temporal fragments. Time is not only indexical, equivalent to that …

Abstract In the debate between Presentists and Eternalists, it's not uncommon to hear the former claim support for the intuitions of Common Sense. The latter might then consider Common Sense to be of little weight in the matter, but Baptiste Le Bihan …

Abstract Presentism is the thesis that only the present exists, and that the past and future are nothing. One of its motivations is to account for the passage of time, which it makes consist of an ontological flow: to become present is to enter existence, …

Abstract According to presentism, only what is present exists. According to moderate presentism, only present events exists, which rules out past and future events, but leaves room, in some sense, for past and future times and objects. Building on my …

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Abstract The "old B theory" of time is an ontological-semantic thesis, according to which it is possible to eliminate, via a method of logical paraphrase, the belief that objects and events transit in time. This doctrine had its eminent defenders in the …

Abstract In order to solve the problem of identity through time of ordinary objects, Roderick Chisholm was led to distinguish two types of entities and two types of identity relations. In this lecture, I will defend Chisholm's theory by adding the thesis …

Abstract In discussions of contingent futures such as "there will be a naval battle tomorrow", the "Ockhamist" position is defined by the recognition of an objective asymmetry between the past, which is necessary, and the future, which is partly …

Abstract Philosophical tradition often opposes the time of consciousness or the subject, and the time of nature or the world, thus drawing a division between the great philosophers of time - Kant, Augustine or Husserl vs. Aristotle, Newton, Bergson. Where …

Abstract Since Newton's mechanics, time has had a special status in physical theories. On the one hand, it appears as a quantity like any other, represented by certain mathematical symbols. But on the other, its role as a quantity is different from that …

Abstract This paper presents a new temporal ontology, to compete with presentism, eternalism, etc. Like moving spotlight theory, wave theory says (i) that there exist four-dimensional hunks of matter and (ii) the world is fundamentally tensed. However, …

Abstract Eternalism, the thesis that past and future entities exist in the same way as present ones, is a natural philosophical interpretation of special relativity and general relativity. However, these two theories are not fundamental, and several …

Abstract The metaphysical Growing Block Theory seems particularly well-suited to account for some of our fundamental intuitions about time: time has a direction, our present extends to the whole universe, the past is closed while the future is open, and …

Abstract Intuitions about the passage of time or the idea that objects persist through time by being numerically identical and fully localized at different instants play an important role in some arguments in favor of the A theory of time or endurantism. …

Abstract When the "new" B-theory of time emerged in the 1980s, its proponents typically conceded that our ordinary conceptual scheme represents the presentness of events as non-perspectival, while insisting that in reality presentness is purely …