The Time of Our Lives
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Authors
Mellor, David Hugh
Publication Date
2001Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Type
Article
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Mellor, D. H. (2001). The Time of Our Lives. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/753
Abstract
The article shows how McTaggart’s distinction between A- and B-series ways of locating events in time prompted and enabled the twentieth century’s most important advances in the philosophy of time. It argues that, even if the B-series represents time as it really is, because having A-series beliefs when they are true is indispensable to the causation of timely action, the A-series represents ‘the time of our lives’.
Keywords
Time, McTaggart
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