The Metaphysically Dynamic Universe

This book develops a new metaphysical framework in which time is motion through a higher dimension. In other words, time literally flows. It breaks through the long debate about time flow and temporal experience in metaphysics by offering an entirely new approach that reconciles psychological time with the time of science.

Autorentext

Stephen Barker is a philosopher at the University of Nottingham; prior to that he held positions at UNAM, Mexico, University of Tasmania, and Monash University. He has published in Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics on counterfactuals, powers ontology, persistence and paradox, negative states of affairs, bundle theory, and global expressivism.

Inhalt

Introduction: The Possibility of Motion-First Metaphysics 1. The Appearance of Passage 2. Being-First Metaphysics 3. Being-Becoming Dualism 4. Transit and Becoming-First Metaphysics 5. Motion as the Essence of Physical Reality 6. Deriving Time from Transit 7. Dynamic Tense: Present, Past, and Future 8. Zeno's Paradoxes and Temporal Dynamicity 9. Temporal Passage Reborn