26 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American philosopher who has worked on the metaphysics of time, temporal experience, and the philosophy of truth.
New Zealand logician who founded tense logic — modal logic for time — and contributed to the philosophy of time and ethics.
British philosopher who has developed a comprehensive account of the stream of consciousness and temporal experience — arguing that experience has intrinsic temporal extension.
American philosopher who has contributed to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy and written on the philosophy of time and informal logic.
German philosopher working on causation, persistence through time, and the metaphysics of time.
British philosopher who has defended an A-theoretic account of time and worked on future contingents and temporal logic.
American philosopher who has worked on the arrow of time, thermodynamics, and the metaphysics of time — arguing that the asymmetries we associate with time's direction are not metaphysically fundamental.
American metaphysician who introduced the trope theory of properties and argued for a four-dimensionalist (worm) theory of persistence and a deflationary account of temporal passage.
Australian philosopher who has worked on the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and temporal experience.
Dutch philosopher of physics who developed the modal interpretation of quantum mechanics and has worked on time, becoming, and the foundations of statistical mechanics.
Canadian philosopher who worked on the nature of temporal passage and the debate between A-theory and B-theory of time.
Israeli-American philosopher who argued for the metaphysical reality of the present moment (the now) and the special status of the future.
Australian philosopher who has argued for a perspectivalist account of time's arrow, advocated retrocausality in quantum mechanics, and developed a pragmatist metaethics.
British idealist philosopher who made the most influential contribution to the philosophy of time: the distinction between the A-series (past/present/future) and B-series (earlier/later-than), and the argument that time is ultimately unreal.
British philosopher who has defended presentism about time and worked on truthmakers for tensed propositions.
Australian metaphysician who has worked on the nature of time, personal identity, and metaphysical methodology.
Italian philosopher of physics who has worked on the relationship between physics and time, defending a sophisticated B-theoretic position that accommodates the felt passage of time.
Australian philosopher who has contributed to the analysis of causation, defended the A-theory of time, and argued for a permissive view of abortion.
American logician who developed branching-time logic, the stit (sees to it that) theory of action, and four-valued logic for reasoning with incomplete or inconsistent information.
American philosopher who defended the A-theory (tensed) of time and argued that the Big Bang undermines the cosmological argument for God's existence.
Australian philosopher who has worked on mathematical explanation, the metaphysics of time, and time travel.
Canadian philosopher who has worked on the flow of time and the challenge posed by special relativity to the idea of a universal present.
Canadian philosopher who developed a branching-universe model of objective becoming — the actual future is selected by a process of branch attrition as possibilities are eliminated.
Julian Barbour's 2020 book arguing that the arrow of time does not require a special low-entropy beginning — in a timeless configuration space, complexity grows in both temporal directions from a central minimum-complexity state (the Janus Point).
David Albert's account of the thermodynamic arrow of time, arguing that the direction of time derives from the Past Hypothesis — the universe's special low-entropy initial condition.
Polish philosopher who worked on the metaphysics of time from an analytic perspective.