Introduction

Week 7: The New Tenseless Theory of Time

Dear all, in the next seminar (Friday the 24th of April) we'll discuss the so called "New Tenseless Theory of Time". It is largely the result of a concession, on the part of more recent generations of B-theorists, that tensed statements cannot be translated into tenseless ones without loss of meaning. I shall briefly discuss again the standard ("Old") tenseless theory. The essential readings for this week are a seminal paper by Oaklander (one of the fathers of the theory) and a critical assessment of the New Theory by William Craig (chapter 3 of his book The Tensed Theory of Time).


Essential Readings



Further Readings 

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