• Three Varieties of Growing Block Theory
    Erkenntnis 86 (3): 623-645. 2019.
    Growing Block theorists are committed, roughly, to two theses: that past and present events exist and that future events do not, and that the present is dynamic and constantly changing. These two theses support a picture of the universe as growing, gaining in more and more things and events, as these recede into the past; but the two theses do not specify how the growth of the block is to be understood ; what status the past is supposed to have compared to the present ; and what should be taken …Read more
  • The Effectiveness of Causes
    Dorothy Mary Emmet
    Macmill. 1984.
    1 Introduction When we ask why something happens or has happened, from earthquakes to car accidents or urban riots, we ask for its cause or causes. ' Cause' comes into practical life, into the experimental sciences, and, perhaps more ...