The Moving Spotlight: An Essay on Time and Ontology

ISBN-13: 9780198823346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str.

Ross P. Cameron

Opis

Ross P. Cameron argues that the flow of time is a genuine feature of reality, and defends a version of the Moving Spotlight theory: the view that past and future beings are real, but there is nonetheless an objectively privileged present. He goes on to defend an account of the open future: what will happen is, as yet, undetermined.

Recenzje

it's well worth the read because, even if you come away from the book holding onto the same view of time as you had going in, you will certainly learn something along the way ... I do think Cameron has breathed new life into the view, and getting on the roller coaster of The Moving Spotlight is a ride well worth taking.

O autorze

Ross P. Cameron obtained his PhD from the University of St Andrews in 2006, worked at the University of Leeds from then until 2014, and is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. He works on many areas in metaphysics, and has published numerous articles on topics such as the nature of time and possibility, the relation between a whole and its parts, truthmaking, properties, the ontological status of musical works and fictional characters, and whether the world has a fundamental level.