The Privileged Present: Defending an 'A-Theory' of Time

Abstract

The following questions go to the heart of the deepest metaphysical disagreement about the nature of time: (1) Are there objective differences between what is past, present, and future? (2) Are present events and things somehow more “real ” than those wholly in the past or future? I should like to respond, “Yes, ” to both questions.

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