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1Time and Existence: A Critique of Degree PresentismIn Bruno Langlet & Jean-Maurice Monnoyer (eds.), Gustav Bergmann: Phenomenological Realism and Dialectical Ontology, De Gruyter. pp. 103-116. 2009.
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13Presentism: 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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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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15In 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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15The 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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8Phenomenology and Existentialism: An IntroductionPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (1): 160-165. 1986.
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18The Disappearance of Time (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (3): 737-740. 1994.
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65Temporal Phenomena, Ontology and the R-theoryMetaphysica 16 (2). 2015.One of the more serious criticisms of the B-theory is that by denying the passage of time or maintaining that passage is a mind-dependent illusion or appearance, the B-theory gives rise to a static, block universe and thereby removes what is most distinctively timelike about time. The aim of this paper is to discuss the R-theory of time, after Russell, who Richard Gale calls “the father of the B-theory,” and explain how the R-theory can respond to the criticisms just raised, and others. In the c…Read more
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21Reminiscenses of Bergmann's Last StudentIn Laird Addis, Greg Jesson & Erwin Tegtmeier (eds.), Ontology and Analysis: Essays and Recollection about Gustav Bergmann, De Gruyter. pp. 332-342. 2007.Peer Reviewed.
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The Concepts of Space and Time: Their Structure and Their Historical Development, M. Capek ed. (review)Philosophia 14 445-453. 1984.
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McTaggart's Paradox, R. D. Ingthorsson. (review)Metaphysica: International Journal of Ontology and Metaphysics. forthcoming.
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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
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Time and Tense: Philosophical Aspects.In Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. pp. 554-557. 2006.
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1Sartre on SexIn Alan Soble & Nicholas Power (eds.), Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 190-206. 1980.
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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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The Problem of our Experience of Time.In L. Nathan Oaklander & Quentin Smith (eds.), The New Theory of Time, Yale Up. pp. 289-292. 1994.
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Nietzsche on FreedomIn White Richard (ed.), Nietzsche: The International Library of Critical Essays in the History of Philosophy. pp. 285-296. 2002.