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Stephen Savitt

Disciplines:
philosophy of time
philosophy of science/philosophy of physics

Summary

Canadian philosopher who has worked on the flow of time and the challenge posed by special relativity to the idea of a universal present.

Core Contribution

Argued that the concept of becoming (temporal passage) is not eliminated by special relativity — within any worldline there is a meaningful notion of before and after.

Notable Works & Achievements

Time's Arrows Today

Being and Becoming in Modern Physics

Historical Influences

Howard Stein John Earman

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Philosophy of Time

Contemporaries & Peers

Dennis Dieks Mauro Dorato

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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