Oct 5, 2007 · In this ambitious text, Yuval Dolev gives an original analysis of the competing 'presentist' and the 'eternalist' camps in the metaphysics of time.

Oct 1, 2007 · In Time and Realism, Yuval Dolev goes beyond the tensed-tenseless debate to argue that neither position is conclusive but that the debate over them should be seen as only the first stage in the philosophical investigation of time.

In Time and Realism, Yuval Dolev goes beyond the tensed-tenseless debate to argue that neither position is conclusive but that the debate over them should be seen as only the first stage in the philosophical investigation of time.

Jul 4, 2023 · Time and philosophy -- Time and zeit -- Tense and tenselessness -- Time's supposed illusoriness -- The logical argument -- The metaphysical argument -- The empirical argument -- The relationship between the three arguments -- Tense in a tenseless world -- Time's supposed concreteness -- The "moving now" -- Solipsism of the present moment ...

Apr 7, 2025 · Branching time (BT) is a multipurpose label, which is mainly used to denote (i) a family of structures (BT representations or BT frames), possibly along with the axiomatic theories defining them, (ii) a family of semantics for temporal and modal logics (BT semantics); and (iii) a metaphysical conception concerning our universe and its temporal and modal features (branching conception of time ...

Jul 4, 2019 · Time and Realism: Metaphysical and Antimetaphysical Perspectives, by Yuval Dolev. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. Pp. ix + 237. H/b £48.5, P/b £19.95. The subject of this book is the passage of time, and as Yuval Dolev notes, '[f]or philosophers there is initially one question: does time really flow or is time's passage merely an illusion?

Jan 22, 2017 · A project to track US news into the 21st century documents a history of time in news: the realism of ‘who’, ‘where’, and ‘what’ declined, and the modernism contexts of ‘when’ and ‘why’ expanded.

In Time and Realism, Yuval Dolev goes beyond the tensed-tenseless debate to argue that neither position is conclusive but that the debate over them should be seen as only the first stage in...

Dolev's ambitious project is to show that the traditional debate in the philosophy of time between the so-called ‘tensed’ and ‘tenseless’ theorists is not a sustainable one.

This journey from metaphysics to phenomenology, suggests Dolev, helps to unite two contrasting traditions in the philosophy of time: one, the science-inspired analytic tradition; and the other, the phenomenological one. The dualism sometimes insisted on between ‘physical time’ and ‘human time’ is a bogus one.