Presentation4

Speaker: Naoyuki Kajimoto
Date and Time: 2019/07/16
Venue: Universtiy of Adelaide (Time and Other Matters workshop)
Title: Presentism and arious temporal asymmetries
 

One of the central challenges in philosophy of time is to explain why there are (or seem to be) so many temporally asymmetric phenomena in our world. It is widely held that dynamic theory of time is better than static theory of time with respect to this problem since the former can appeal to objective temporal passage, which flows from the past to the future. The aim of this paper is to show that this is not the case for the most popular dynamic theory of time, that is, presentism. I will argue that presentists cannot deal with the problem of various temporal asymmetries better than static theorists of time since presentists’ explanation shares the explanatory power with static theorists’ explanation.