Metaphysics of Time in Spacetime

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 3 (1):1-8 (2014)
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I give a new and more general argument against presentism within relativistic spacetimes. This argument is untouched by different recent proposals designed to save presentism in a relativistic setting

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10.1002/tht3.89

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