Dear all, Monday's current projects google notice went out claiming the paper was "TBA". In fact, TBA could be read as an acronym for "The B- and A-theory" and therefore as offering the roughly correct title for the paper. But here is the improvement nonetheless:
On our concept of time and the modal status of the A- and B-theory What is the modal status of the A- and the B-theory of time? Ought we to be necessitarians or contingentists about these views? This paper examines these questions by considering a number of different analysis of our concept of time in order to determine whether, given each different analysis, one or the other of the A- or B-theory is conceptually incoherent. It is argued that whether one ought to be a contingentist or a necessitarian about the A- and B-theories depends on how sensitive one thinks our concept of time is, to the way our world is. This is because analyses fall into two broad categories: straight analyses and world sensitive analyses where the latter are analyses according to which what time turns out to be is sensitive to facts about the way the actual world turns out to be and the former are not sensitive in this way. I argue that on almost all of the straight analyses contingentism is vindicated, whereas on all the most plausible world sensitive analyses necessitarianism is vindicated. Dr. Kristie Miller University of Sydney Senior Research Fellow School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney Australia Room 411, A 18 [email protected] [email protected] Ph: 02 93569663 http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home_Page.html
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