This book takes up the question of whether past and future events
exist. Two very different views are explored. According to one of
these views, (presentism), advanced by Nikk Effingham, the present
is special. Effingham argues that only the present things exist,
but which things those are changes as time passes. Given
presentism, although there once existed dinosaurs, they exist no
more, and although you and I exist, at some time in the future we
will come to exist no more. According to the alternative view
(eternalism), advanced by Kristie Miller, our world is a giant
four-dimensional block of spacetime in which all things, past,
present, and future, exist. On this view, dinosaurs exist, it is
just that they are not located at the current time. The book
considers arguments for, and against, presentism and eternalism,
including arguments that appeal to our best science, to the way the
world seems to us to be in our experiences of time, change, and
freedom, and to how to make sense of ordinary claims about the
past. KEY FEATURES: Offers an accessible introduction to the
philosophy of temporal ontology. Captures the process of
philosophical debate, giving readers an insight into the craft of
philosophy. Engages with and clearly explains state-of-the-art and
cutting-edge research.
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