Centre for Time: Recent submissions
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Causation and Reductive Explanation
Published 2006-07-20One of the most powerful tools in science is the method of reductive explanation, where we explain the behaviour of a complex system in terms of the behaviour of the parts from which it is composed. In order to employ this ...Open AccessPresentation -
Time is the Simplest (and Strongest) Thing
Published 2006-07-21What is the difference between time and space? This paper proposes an answer: the temporal direction is that direction on the manifold of events in which our best theories can tell the strongest, most informative "stories." ...Open AccessPresentation -
Elusive Causation
Published 2006-07-19David Lewis claimed that knowledge is elusive. "That is how knowledge is elusive. Examine it, and straightway it vanishes..." He argued that epistemology robs us of our knowledge: "Maybe epistemology is the culprit. Maybe ...Open AccessPresentation -
The Subjectivity of the Present
Published 2006-07-23Perhaps the most compelling argument for the tensed theory of time ˜ and in particular the idea of a global monadic present or now ˜ has always been that it is the best explanation of temporal experience. Most detensers ...Open AccessPresentation -
The Specious Present
Published 2006-07-22William James characterised the specious present as 'the short duration of which we are immediately and incessantly sensible'. The doctrine that our conscious awareness is not instantaneous, but rather spans a short ...Open AccessPresentation