Lehrende: Dr. Roberto Loss
Veranstaltungsart: Hauptseminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Credits: 4,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: 1 | 21
Kontingentschema: Phil_Standard_WS1415
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Kommentare/ Inhalte: Kit Fine’s ‘Tense and Reality’ (2005) represents one of the most important contributions to the debate on time, tense and the reality of temporal passage in recent years. Fine not only distinguishes between ‘standard’ and ‘non-standard’ theories about tense, but also defends the non-standard theory of tense that he calls ‘fragmentalism’ as the best form of tense-realism. In this seminar we will discuss both Fine’s article and the debate it has generated. Particular attention will be devoted to understanding the main structure of Fine’s ‘McTaggartian’ argument against the reality of tense, and the idea, central to Fine’s fragmentalism, that the best way to be a realist about the reality of temporal passage is to take reality to divide ‘into fragments, no two of which can be regarded as belonging to a single coherent whole’ (Fine 2005: 262)
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