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Time, Space, Dummett and McTaggart

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Garrett, Brian

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Michael Dummett’s fecund and uncharacteristically brief article “A Defence of McTaggart’s Proof of the Unreality of Time” offers a well-known interpretation of McTaggart’s proof, and makes a number of controversial claims about a range of inter-connected theses concerning time and space. I want to sort out what is plausible in what Dummett says from what is not, and identify which theses should be endorsed by A theorists and which by B theorists. It is important, even today, to get clear about...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorGarrett, Brian
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-06T23:37:09Z
dc.date.available2021-10-06T23:37:09Z
dc.identifier.issn1437-2053
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/250514
dc.description.abstractMichael Dummett’s fecund and uncharacteristically brief article “A Defence of McTaggart’s Proof of the Unreality of Time” offers a well-known interpretation of McTaggart’s proof, and makes a number of controversial claims about a range of inter-connected theses concerning time and space. I want to sort out what is plausible in what Dummett says from what is not, and identify which theses should be endorsed by A theorists and which by B theorists. It is important, even today, to get clear about these issues and their bearing on Dummett’s interpretation of McTaggart.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.publisherOntos Verlag
dc.rights© 2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
dc.sourceMetaphysica
dc.subjectTime
dc.subjectSpace
dc.subjectDummett
dc.subjectMcTaggart
dc.titleTime, Space, Dummett and McTaggart
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.citationvolume18
dc.date.issued2017
local.identifier.absfor220309 - Metaphysics
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB5864
local.publisher.urlhttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/mp
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationGarrett, Brian, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage61
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage67
local.identifier.doi10.1515/mp-2016-0011
local.identifier.absseo970122 - Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies
dc.date.updated2020-11-23T11:22:32Z
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85018739593
local.identifier.thomsonID000403495600004
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dc.provenancehttps://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/13059..."The Published Version can be archived in a Non-Commercial Institutional Repository" from SHERPA/RoMEO site (as at 7/10/2021).
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