The passage of time

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The passage of time

Eric Olson argues that the dynamic view of time must be false. It requires that the question ‘How fast does time pass?’ has an answer. But its only possible answer, one second per second, is not an answer. I argue that Olson has failed to identify what is wrong with talk of time’s passage. Then I ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Noonan, Harold W.
Format:	Article
Published:	De Gruyter 2015
Subjects:	Time; Passage; Rate; B-theory; Flow
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52736/

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