Presentism The present exists; the past and the future do not. Block The past, present and future all exist. Growing Block The past and present exist; the future is coming…
Possible Positions on the Passage of Time
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Get Started Reading Blogs on the Philosophy of Science
Want to read some nice raw philosophy of science? Here are twelve options that I highly recommend. It’s Only a Theory is a new blog on the philosophy of science,…
Two Tough Cases of Underdetermination
John Earman once pointed out two tough cases of underdetermination, neither of which arises in a silly algorithmic way. Today, I’d like to argue for an important difference between these…
No, there are STILL no deadly mini-black holes!
Kentucky, who runs a fantastic blog over at arxivblog.org, has pointed out a new calculation about black hole creation here on earth. The paper (arxiv) suggests that mini-black holes might…
Group Structural Realism (Part 4)
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4The Higher Structures Problem. My worry about structural realism starts with the observation that a relation is a very general…