Time, Space, and Metaphysics

Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
1.1 Absolute and relational time......Page 12
1.2 Absolute and relational space......Page 17
1.3 Metrical and non-metrical concepts......Page 21
2.1 Temporal precedence......Page 29
2.2 Causation and order......Page 36
2.3 Order and change......Page 40
3. Time and Tense......Page 45
3.1 Indexicality and tense......Page 46
3.2 Subjectivity and perspective......Page 53
3.3 Tense and tenselessness......Page 60
4.1 Reality and scepticism......Page 71
4.2 Mind-dependence, indeterminacy, and convention......Page 81
4.3 Temporal parts and temporary intrinsics......Page 89
5.1 Present and past reality......Page 100
5.2 McTaggart and the unreality of time......Page 106
5.3 Anti-realism and the past......Page 114
6. The Future......Page 125
6.1 Predictions and truth......Page 126
6.2 Conditionals and modality......Page 130
6.3 Precognition......Page 137
7. Grammar and Ontology......Page 143
7.1 Abstract nouns and clauses......Page 144
7.2 Facts......Page 151
7.3 Instants and the passage of time......Page 160
8.1 Verifiability......Page 167
8.2 Simultaneity......Page 177
8.3 Equality and convention......Page 181
9.1 Time and infinity......Page 189
9.2 Causes, causal conditions, and backwards causation......Page 197
9.3 Time travel......Page 212
10.1 Absolute space......Page 217
10.2 The reality of space......Page 223
10.3 Space and curvature......Page 234
11.1 Change and persistence......Page 242
11.2 Temporal vacua......Page 247
11.3 Time, change, and empirical equivalence......Page 258
References......Page 265
E......Page 272
N......Page 273
T......Page 274
W......Page 275