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30On the Experience of Tenseless TimeJournal of Philosophical Research 18 159-166. 1993.Defending the tenseless theory of time requires dealing adequately with the experience of temporal becoming. The issue centers on whether the defender of tenseless time can provide an adequate analysis of the presence of experience and the appropriateness of certain of our attitudes toward future and past events. By responding to a recent article, ‘Passage and the Presenee of Experience’, by H. Scott Hestevold, I shall attempt to show that adequate analysis of tenseless time is possible.
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170The New Theory of Time (edited book)Yale Up. 1994.The Preface and the General Introduction to the book set the debate within the wider philosophical context and show why the subject of temporal becoming is a perennial concern of science, religion, language, logic, and the philosophy of ...
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233McTaggart’s Paradox and Crisp’s PresentismPhilosophia 38 (2): 229-241. 2010.In his review of The Ontology of Time, Thomas Crisp (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2005a ) argues that Oaklander's version of McTaggart's paradox does not make any trouble for his version of presentism. The aim of this paper is to refute that claim by demonstrating that Crisp's version of presentism does indeed succumb to a version of McTaggart's argument. I shall proceed as follows. In Part I I shall explain Crisp's view and then argue in Part II that his analysis of temporal becoming, temp…Read more
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60Does the Russellian Theory of Time Entail Fatalism?Modern Schoolman 59 (3): 206-212. 1982.Peer Reviewed.
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44C.D. Broad's ontology of mindOntos. 2006.Rather than attempt to trace the development of his thought throughout these fifty years this book considers his most representative work, namely, The Mind and ...
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343Russell, negative facts, and ontologyPhilosophy of Science 47 (3): 434-455. 1980.Russell's introduction of negative facts to account for the truth of "negative" sentences or beliefs rests on his collaboration with Wittgenstein in such efforts as the characterization of formal necessity, the theory of logical atomism, and the use of the Ideal Language. In examining their views we arrive at two conclusions. First, that the issue of negative facts is distinct from questions of meaning or intentionality; what a sentence or belief means or is about rather than what makes it true …Read more
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78Absolute Becoming and the Myth of PassagePhilo 7 (1): 36-46. 2004.In a recent paper, Steven Savitt attempts to demonstrate that there is an area of common ground between one classic proponent of temporal passage, C.D. Broad, and one classic opponent of passage, D.C. Williams. According to Savitt, Broad's notion of “absolute becoming” as the ordered occurrence of (simultaneity sets of) events, and Williams’ notion of “literal passage,” as the happening of events strung along the four-dimensional space-time manifold, are indistinguishable. Savitt recognizes that…Read more
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170Personal Identity, Immortality, and the SoulPhilo 4 (2): 183-194. 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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44Temporal Realism and the R-TheoryIn Guido Bonino, Greg Jesson & Javier Cumpa (eds.), Defending Realism: Ontological and Epistemological Investigations, De Gruyter. pp. 123-140. 2014.
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40Jokic on the Tensed Existence of NaturePhilo 6 (2): 211-215. 2003.In “The Tensed or Tensless Existence of Nature” Alexsander Jokic attempts to defend a new version A. N. Prior’s “Thank Goodness It’sOver” argument against my response to it. Jokic argues that we can give a non-circular account of ceasing to exist that will vindicate the new reading, but I argue that his account to rescue Prior’s argument against my criticism fails.
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161Time and Existence: A Critique of Degree PresentismIn Maria Elisabeth Reicher (ed.), States of Affairs, Ontos Verlag. pp. 151-165. 2009.
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7Debates 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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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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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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8"Phenomenology and Extentialism: An Introduction" by Reinhardt Grossmann (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (1): 160. 1986.
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26The ontology of timePrometheus Books. 2004.L. Nathan Oaklander is one of the leading philosophers of time defending the tenseless or B-Theory of time. He has remained at the forefront of this field since the early 1980s and today he is arguably the most formidable opponent of the tensed or A-theory of time. Much of the direction of the debate in this field for the past twenty years or so, especially in regards to the new tenseless theory of time, has been influenced by Oaklander's work. This book presents a carefully argued defense of th…Read more
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68McTaggart’s Paradox and the Infinite Regress of Temporal AttributionsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 25 (3): 425-431. 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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14C. D. Broad’s Philosophy of TimeRoutledge. 2020.In this study, Oaklander's primary aim is to examine critically C.D. Broad’s changing views of time and in so doing both clarify the central disputes in the philosophy of time, explicate the various positions Broad took regarding them, and develop his own responses both to Broad and the issues debated.
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48Personal Identity, Responsibility and TimeIn Heather Dyke (ed.), Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 161--178. 2003.Peer Reviewed.
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Mc Taggart's paradox revisitedIn L. Nathan Oaklander & Quentin Smith (eds.), The New Theory of Time, Yale Up. pp. 211-213. 1994.
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74The Importance of Time (edited book)Kluwer. 2001.The Philosophy of Time Society 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 society with the initial costs underwritten by the Drake University Center for the Humanities. Thus, the Philosophy of Time Society (PTS) was formed in 1993. Its goal is to promote the study …Read more