No ground for doomsday

Open future, supervaluationism and the growing-block theory: a stage-theoretical account

“…As I have suggested elsewhere (Loss, 2019(Loss, : pp. 1150(Loss, -1151, it seems possible to use this kind of stage-talk to express the general idea that temporal passage is real, and namely, by saying that there are at least two different stages of temporal passage such that at one stage reality is in a certain way and at some later stage reality is in a different way, incompatible with the first.…”

“…See on thisBriggs and Forbes (2012: pp. 268-270),Correia and Rosenkranz (2018: p. 111) andLoss (2019).18 This is the same conditionCorreia and Rosenkranz (2018: p. 168) call '(p1)'.…”

“…52-58;Deasy, 2017: p. 391;Correia & Rosenkranz, 2018: pp. 36-50;Loss, 2019Loss, : pp. 1136Loss, -1137.…”

“…44-49) for a recent example of the use of hyper-times (or 'super-times') in connection with dynamic theories of time.15 To be more precise, I am considering here a 'standard' version of the growing-block theory in the sense of whatFine (2005) calls 'standard tense realism'. Elsewhere(Loss 2019(Loss : pp. 1151(Loss -1152 I provide a stagetheoretical characterisation of Fine's standard realism as the theory according to which reality is oriented towards one particular stage of temporal passage (which I am calling here the 'actual' one).…”

The Invisible Thin Red Line

“…31 31 Indeed, if the ITRL were determined by facts about the whole of reality, this would be in tension with the idea that reality is not of a whole but fragmented. Flow Fragmentalism does not entail the thesis that Loss (2019: 1253) discusses, according to which the overall structure of the fragmented reality can determine within each fragment a TRL. Thanks to an anonymous referee for having asked to clarify the difference, if any, between our proposal and that passage of Loss'.…”