A Future for Presentism

Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK (2006)
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How can we talk meaningfully about the past if it does not exist to be talked about? What gives time its direction? Is time travel possible? This defence of presentism - the view that only the present exists - makes an original contribution to a fast growing and exciting debate.

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BD638.B69 2006

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0199568219   9780199212804   9780199568215   0199212805   9780191707094
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