Temporal passage and the ‘no alternate possibilities’ argument

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Temporal passage and the ‘no alternate possibilities’ argument

Dynamic theories of time typically commit to the claim that “time passes”. In this paper I develop a version of the ‘no alternate possibilities’ argument in order to show that time does not pass, but that this is no threat to dynamic theories of time.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tallant, Jonathan
Format:	Article
Published:	Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação 2016
Subjects:	Rate of Passage; Time; Temporal Passage; "No alternate possibilities" argument
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44433/

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