Eternalist Tensism

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 58 (6):590-605 (2015)
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Eternalist tensism is the thesis that tense is an objective feature of reality as it is in itself and that all times, whether past, present, or future, are equally real. I develop an argument from qualitative change in favor of tensism and defend eternalism from an argument from fatalism

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10.1080/0020174x.2015.1077016

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Four Dimensionalism.Theodore Sider - 1997 - Philosophical Review 106 (2):197-231.
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Real Time.D. H. Mellor - 1981 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
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