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Intro
Preface
Contents
About the Editor
1 From William of Ockham to Contemporary Ockhamism and Back Again: An Overview
References
2 Ockham on Time
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Permanent and Successive Things
2.3 Ontological Problems with Successive Things
2.4 Successive Things and the Razor-Principle
2.5 Reductionism of Change and Time to Permanent Things
References
3 Ockhamistic Inspiration in Modern Tense-Logic
3.1 The Analysis of Future Contingents in Terms of Three-Valued Logic
3.2 Ockham's Rejection of the Argument from Divine Foreknowledge to Determinism
3.3 Ockham's Notion of Time and the Idea of a Thin Red Line
3.4 The Possible Use of Ockham's Ideas in Modern Tense-Logic
3.5 Conclusion
References
4 Ockhamism Without Molinism
4.1 Branching Time and Prior's Ockhamism
4.2 ``True'' Ockhamism and the Molinist Objection
4.3 Ockhamism Defended
4.4 Counterfactuals
4.5 Homogeneous Theories of Future Contingents
4.5.1 Anti-Molinist Anti-Ockhamism
4.5.2 Non-Molinist Non-Ockhamism
4.5.3 Molinist Ockhamism
4.6 Ockhamism Without Molinism
6.3 Grounding and Presentism
6.4 Toward the Future(s)
6.5 A Too Thin True Future
6.5.1 The Argument Against TRL Presentism
6.5.2 A Possible Presentist Answer
6.6 Conclusion
References
7 Presentism, Ockhamism, and Truth-Grounding
7.1 The Grounding Problem for Presentism
7.2 The Nuclear Option
7.3 Nefarious vs Upstanding Presentism
7.4 The Revolutionary Strategy
7.5 Ockhamism
7.6 Ockhamists on the Revolutionary Road
7.7 Conclusion
References
8 The Metaphysics of Ockhamism
8.1 Preliminary Clarifications
8.2 Presentism and the Growing Block Theory
8.3 The Shrinking Block Theory and Eternalism
8.4 Branching and Divergence
8.5 Three Ways to Understand the Openness of the Future
8.6 Other Definitions
References
9 The Metaphysics of Passage in Dynamical Reduction Models of Quantum Mechanics
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Dynamical Reduction Models of Quantum Mechanics
9.2.1 The GRW Framework
9.2.2 The World According to GRW
9.2.3 The Relativistic Extensions of GRW
9.3 Callender's Objections to Quantum Becoming
9.3.1 Indeterminism and Openness in DRM
9.3.2 Passage and the Ontology of Superpositions
Preface
Contents
About the Editor
1 From William of Ockham to Contemporary Ockhamism and Back Again: An Overview
References
2 Ockham on Time
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Permanent and Successive Things
2.3 Ontological Problems with Successive Things
2.4 Successive Things and the Razor-Principle
2.5 Reductionism of Change and Time to Permanent Things
References
3 Ockhamistic Inspiration in Modern Tense-Logic
3.1 The Analysis of Future Contingents in Terms of Three-Valued Logic
3.2 Ockham's Rejection of the Argument from Divine Foreknowledge to Determinism
3.3 Ockham's Notion of Time and the Idea of a Thin Red Line
3.4 The Possible Use of Ockham's Ideas in Modern Tense-Logic
3.5 Conclusion
References
4 Ockhamism Without Molinism
4.1 Branching Time and Prior's Ockhamism
4.2 ``True'' Ockhamism and the Molinist Objection
4.3 Ockhamism Defended
4.4 Counterfactuals
4.5 Homogeneous Theories of Future Contingents
4.5.1 Anti-Molinist Anti-Ockhamism
4.5.2 Non-Molinist Non-Ockhamism
4.5.3 Molinist Ockhamism
4.6 Ockhamism Without Molinism
6.3 Grounding and Presentism
6.4 Toward the Future(s)
6.5 A Too Thin True Future
6.5.1 The Argument Against TRL Presentism
6.5.2 A Possible Presentist Answer
6.6 Conclusion
References
7 Presentism, Ockhamism, and Truth-Grounding
7.1 The Grounding Problem for Presentism
7.2 The Nuclear Option
7.3 Nefarious vs Upstanding Presentism
7.4 The Revolutionary Strategy
7.5 Ockhamism
7.6 Ockhamists on the Revolutionary Road
7.7 Conclusion
References
8 The Metaphysics of Ockhamism
8.1 Preliminary Clarifications
8.2 Presentism and the Growing Block Theory
8.3 The Shrinking Block Theory and Eternalism
8.4 Branching and Divergence
8.5 Three Ways to Understand the Openness of the Future
8.6 Other Definitions
References
9 The Metaphysics of Passage in Dynamical Reduction Models of Quantum Mechanics
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Dynamical Reduction Models of Quantum Mechanics
9.2.1 The GRW Framework
9.2.2 The World According to GRW
9.2.3 The Relativistic Extensions of GRW
9.3 Callender's Objections to Quantum Becoming
9.3.1 Indeterminism and Openness in DRM
9.3.2 Passage and the Ontology of Superpositions