R. D. Ingthorsson: McTaggart's Paradox

Cover: 9780367258542 | McTaggart's Paradox | R. D. Ingthorsson | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Beschreibung

McTaggart's argument for the unreality of time, first published in 1908, set the agenda for 20th-century philosophy of time. Yet there is very little agreement on what it actually says-nobody agrees with the conclusion, but still everybody finds something important in it. This book presents the first critical overview of the last century of debate on what is popularly called "McTaggart's Paradox". Scholars have long assumed that McTaggart's argument stands alone and does not rely on any contentious ontological principles. The author demonstrates that these assumptions are¿incorrect-McTaggart himself explicitly claimed his argument to be dependent on the ontological principles that form the basis of his idealist metaphysics. The result is that scholars have proceeded to understand the argument on the basis of their own metaphysical assumptions, duly arriving at very different interpretations. This book offers an alternative reading of McTaggart's argument, and at the same time explains why other commentators arrive at their mutually incompatible interpretations. It will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in the philosophy of time and other areas of contemporary metaphysics.

Über den Autor

R. D. Ingthorsson is a Lecturer at Lund University, Sweden. He has published in The European Journal of Philosophy, Dialectica, Metaphysica, and Axiomathes, and co-edited the celebrated Mental Causation and Ontology. His next project is "Scientific Essentialism: Modernising the Aristotelian View", funded by The Bank of Sweden Tercentenial Foundation.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. Introduction

2. The Metaphysics

3. The Argument

4. The C Series

5. The Defences

6. The Objections

7. The B View and the Problem of Change

8. The A View and the Problem of Tense

9. The Conclusion

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780367258542
ISBN-10:	0367258544
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ingthorsson, R. D.
Hersteller:	Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 9 mm
Von/Mit:	R. D. Ingthorsson
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.03.2019
Gewicht:	0,256 kg

Artikel-ID: 128407695