863: Metaphysics Seminar

Readings

  1. McTaggart, John McTaggart Ellis, “Time,” Chapter 33 of his Nature of Existence, vol 2.
  2. Broad, C. D. (1938). “Ostensible Temporality.” In his The Examination of McTaggart’s Philosophy. Cambridge University Press.
  3. Christensen, Ferrel (1974). “Mctaggart’s Paradox and the Nature of Time,” The Philosophical Quarterly 24:97 289—299.
  4. Williams, Donald C. (1951). “The Myth of Passage,” The Journal of Philosophy 48:15 457—472.
  5. Smart JJC (1949). “The River of Time.” Mind 58(232) :483–494
  6. Prior AN (1968). “Changes in Events and Changes in Things.” In his Papers on Time and Tense, 2nd Edition. London: Oxford University Press 2003. 7–19.
  7. Schlesinger, George (1969). “The Two Notions of the Passage of Time,” Noûs 3:1 1—16.
  8. Schlesinger, George N. (1982). “How Time Flies,” Mind 91:364 501—523.
  9. Schlesinger, George N. (1991). “E Pur Si Muove,” The Philosophical Quarterly 41:165 427—441.
  10. Braddon-Mitchell, David (2004). “How Do We Know It Is Now Now?,” Analysis 64:283 199—203.
  11. Forrest, Peter (2004). “The Real but Dead Past: a Reply to Braddon-mitchell,” Analysis 64:284 358—362.
  12. Heathwood, Chris (2005). “The Real Price of the Dead Past: a Reply to Forrest and to Braddon-mitchell,” Analysis 65:3 249—251.
  13. Markosian, Ned (1993). “How Fast Does Time Pass?,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53:4 829—844.
  14. van Inwagen, Peter (2002). Metaphysics, 2nd edition. Westview Press.
  15. Olson, Eric T. (2009). “The Rate of Time’s Passage.,” Analysis 69:1 3 - 9.
  16. Hudson, Hud and Markosian, Ned and Wasserman, Ryan and Whitcomb, Dennis (2009). “The Rate of Passage: Reply to van inwagen and Olson.”
  17. Haslanger, Sally (2003). “Persistence Through Time,” in The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics. In Zimmerman (2003).
  18. Fine, Kit (2005). “Tense and Reality,” in Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers.Oxford University Press.
  19. Zimmerman, Dean (2005). “The A-theory of Time, the B-theory of Time, and ‘Taking Tense Seriously’,” Dialectica: International Journal of Philosophy & Official organ of the Esap 59:4 401—457.
  20. Sider, Writing the Book of the World, manuscript, selections
  21. Prior, A. N. (1959), “Identifiable Individuals.” Review of Metaphysics 13.
  22. Geach, Peter (1977). Providence and Evil, selections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. selections.
  23. Adams, Robert (1989). “Time and Thisness.” In Themes from Kaplan.

Some additional readings are here.