Does Tomorrow Exist?: A Debate

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Contents
Foreword
Part I Opening Statements
	1 In Defence of the Block Universe View
		1. Introduction
		2. Theories of Time: The Options
		3. The Argument From Special Relativity
		4. Arguments Against the Block: Change
		5. Arguments Against the Block: Temporal Phenomenology
		6. Arguments Against the Block: Free Will
		7. The Argument From Explanation for the Block
	2 In Defence of Presentism
		1. Introduction
		2. Making Sense of the Debate
		3. In Favour of Presentism
		4. Truthmaking
		5. Being Explains Truth
		6. Problems for Presentism
		7. A Proposed Solution
		8. Objections
		9. Comparison to Eternalism
		10. The Open Future
		11. Presentism and Special Relativity
		12. Conclusion
Part II First Round of Replies
	3 Past and Future Do Not Exist: Reply to Kristie Miller
		1. Introduction
		2. Change
		3. Direction, Asymmetry, and Explanation
		4. A Bad Presentist Explanation
		5. A Better Presentist Explanation
		6. Back to the Open Future
		7. Conclusion
	4 The Past and Future Exist: Reply to Nikk Effingham
		1. Introduction
		2. The Argument From Ontological Parsimony
		3. Truthmaking and Parsimony
		4. The Objection From Relativity
Part III Second Round of Replies
	5 Back to the Block: Reply to Nikk Effingham’s Reply
		1. Change
		2. Direction, Asymmetry, and Explanation
	6 Presentism Returns: Reply to Kristie Miller’s Reply
		1. Introduction
		2. Ontological Parsimony
		3. Truthmaking
		4. Ontological Parsimony Again: Qualitative Parsimony
		5. Ontological Parsimony Again, Again: Quantitative Parsimony
		6. Do Propositions Exist?
		7. Permissivism
		8. Conclusion
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Index