Fragmenting Reality: An Essay on Passage, Causality and Time Travel

✍ Scribed by Samuele Iaquinto; Giuliano Torrengo

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Series: Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The growing interest in fragmentalism is one of the most exciting trends in philosophy of time and is gradually reshaping the contemporary debate. Providing an extensive interpretation of this view, Samuele Iaquinto and Giuliano Torrengo articulate a novel theory of the passage of time and argue that it is the most effective in vindicating the inherent dynamism of reality.
Iaquinto and Torrengo offer the first full-range application of fragmentalism to a number of metaphysical topics, including the open future, causation, the A-theoretic interpretation of special relativity and time travel. The resulting picture, they argue, conveys the potential of a radically new understanding of time.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Preface
Introduction: From global coherence to fragmented time
0.1 Methodological remarks
0.2 The debate on the nature of passage
0.3 The standard framework
0.4 The non-standard framework
0.5 Assumptions
1 Flow Fragmentalism
1.1 Flow Fragmentalism
1.2 Some objections and replies
1.3 The rivals
2 Open Future
2.1 The varieties of openness
2.2 Fragmentalist openness
2.3 Appendix: The model theory
3 Causation
3.1 Cross-temporal facts
3.2 Deflationist Humeanism
3.3 The ways of fragmented causation
3.4 Temporal successions and causal successions
4 Relativity
4.1 Time, space and space-time
4.2 Relativistic fragments: solipsism and frame-theoretic conception
4.3 Relativistic Flow Fragmentalism
5 Time Travel
5.1 Novikovian time travel
5.2 Changing the past: the problem
5.3 Changing the past: the solution
5.4 Movable present and vacillating past
Notes
References
Index