We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
The Bare Past.
- Authors
Grandjean, Vincent
- Abstract
In this paper, I first introduce one of the most prominent objections against the Growing Block Theory of time (GBT), the so-called 'epistemic objection', according to which GBT provides no way of knowing that our time is the objective present and, therefore, leads at best to absolute skepticism about our temporal location, at worst to the quasi-certainty that we are located in the objective past. Secondly, I express my dissatisfaction regarding the various traditional attempts to address this objection, especially Merricks (2006), Forrest (2004) and Correia and Rosenkranz (2018). Thirdly, I show that the passage of time leads to an anti-essentialist picture of natural kinds. Finally, I develop my own solution to the epistemic objection, based on the continued existence of bare particulars.
- Subjects
SKEPTICISM; AGNOSTICISM; ESSENTIALISM (Philosophy); SUBSTANCE (Philosophy); EPISTEMIC logic
- Publication
Philosophia, 2022, Vol 50, Issue 5, p2523
- ISSN
0048-3893
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11406-022-00534-8