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14The Disappearance of Time (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (3): 737-740. 1994.
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13The Disappearance of Time (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (3): 737-740. 1994.
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13The philosophy of time (edited book)Routledge. 2008.What is the nature of temporal passage—the movement of events or moments of time from the future through the present into the past? Is the future and the past as real as the present, or is the present—or perhaps the present and the past—all that exists? What role, if any, does language play in giving us an insight into temporal reality? Is it possible to travel through time into distant regions of the future or the past? What accounts for the direction of time, the sense we have that we are movi…Read more
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12Presentism: Essential Readings (edited book)Lexington Books. 2010.Presentism: Essential Readings contains writings—classic and contemporary—that acquaint the reader with different versions of presentism, standard philosophical and scientific objections to presentism, and their attempted solutions. Detailed introductions to each part of the book make the discussions accessible to students and those unfamiliar with this fascinating and controversial philosophy.
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12Mctaggart's Paradox and the Infinite Regress of Temporal Attributions: A Reply to SmithSouthern Journal of Philosophy 25 (3): 425-431. 1987.
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11In R. D. Ingthorsson’s provocative and carefully researched book, McTaggart’s Paradox, the author aims to demonstrate that “practically every writer is guilty of some or other of the misunderstandings of McTaggart’s paradox that I outline in this book”. The most dramatic misunderstanding that commentators make is the failure to realize that McTaggart’s argument for the unreality of time depends on the principle of temporal parity: the thesis that all times, whether A times or B times, exist equa…Read more
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11The Importance of Time: Proceedings of the Philosophy of Time Society, 1995–2000 (edited book)Springer. 2001.The Philosophy of Time Society (PTS) grew out of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on the Philosophy of Time offered by George Schlesinger in 1991. The members of that seminar wanted to promote interest in the philosophy of time and Jon N. Turgerson offered to become the first Director of the PTS with the initial costs underwritten by the Drake University Center for the Humanities. Thus, the PTS was formed in 1993. Its goal is to promote the study of the philosophy of time f…Read more
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11Wishing It Were Now Some Other TimeIn Michael Stöltzner & Friedrich Stadler (eds.), Time and History: Proceedings of the 28. International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg Am Wechsel, Austria 2005, De Gruyter. pp. 43-50. 2006.
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9Delmas Lewis on Persons and Responsibility: A CritiquePhilosophy Research Archives 13 181-187. 1987.Delmas Lewis has argued that the tenseless view of time is committed to a view of personal identity according to which no one can be held morally responsible for their actions. His argument, if valid, is a serious objection to the tenseless view. The purpose of this paper is to defend the detenser by pointing out the pitfalls in Lewis’ argument.
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8Phenomenology and Existentialism: An IntroductionPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (1): 160-165. 1986.
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8"Phenomenology and Extentialism: An Introduction" by Reinhardt Grossmann (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (1): 160. 1986.
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6Debates in the Metaphysics of Time (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2014.A selection of lively debates in the philosophy of time that outline, defend and object to contemporary issues in metaphysics, consciousness and God.
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5Personal Identity, Immortality, and the SoulPhilo 4 (2): 185-194. 2001.The soul has played many different roles in philosophy and religion. Two of the primary functions of the soul are the bearer of personal identity and the foundation of immortality. In this paper I shall consider different interpretations of what the soul has been taken to be and argue that however we interpret the soul we cannot consistently maintain the soul is both what we are and what continues after our bodily death.
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4Time and BecomingIn P. Weingartner & H. Czermak (eds.), Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of the International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, 1982. pp. 363-365. 1983.Peer Reviewed.
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2Craig on the Experience of TenseIn The ontology of time, Prometheus Books. pp. 235-242. 2004.Peer Reviewed.
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2Tempo e IdentitaArmando Editore. 2009.Translation of several chapters of L. Nathan Oaklander's contribution to Time, Change and Freedom: An Introduction to Metaphysics (New York and London: Routledge, 2008.
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2Albert Shalom, The Body/Mind Conceptual Framework and the Problem of Personal Identity: Some Theories in Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Neurology Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 7 (4): 166-168. 1987.
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1Freedom and the new theory of timeIn Robin Le Poidevin (ed.), Questions of Time and Tense, Oxford University Press. pp. 185-205. 1998.
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1Sartre on SexIn Alan Soble & Nicholas Power (eds.), Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 190-206. 2007.
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1Introduction: McTaggart's Paradox and the Tensed Theory of Time.”In L. Nathan Oaklander & Quentin Smith (eds.), The New Theory of Time, Yale Up. pp. 157--162. 1994.
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1Presentism: A CritiqueIn Hallvard Lillehammer & G. Rodriguez Pereyra (eds.), Real Metaphysics: Essays in Honour of D. H. Mellor, With His Replies.. pp. 196-211. 2002.
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1Negative FactsRoutledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online. 2005.If propositions are made true in virtue of corresponding to facts, then what are the truth-makers of true negative propositions such as ‘The apple is not red’? Russell argued that there must be negative facts to account for what makes true negative propositions true and false positive propositions false. Others, more parsimonious in their ontological commitments, have attempted to avoid them. Wittgenstein rejected them since he was loath to think that the sign for negation referred to a negative…Read more