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person1970s-2010s

Ferrel Christensen

Disciplines:
philosophy of time

Summary

Canadian philosopher who worked on the nature of temporal passage and the debate between A-theory and B-theory of time.

Core Contribution

Contributed to the analysis of temporal becoming and the distinction between tensed and tenseless theories of time.

Notable Works & Achievements

Space-Like Time

Historical Influences

J.M.E. McTaggart

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Philosophy of Time

Contemporaries & Peers

Quentin Smith

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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