Time, Space, Dummett and McTaggart

Brian Garrett

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Time, Space, Dummett and McTaggart

Brian Garrett

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From the journal Metaphysica Volume 18 Issue 1

Abstract

Michael Dummett’s fecund and uncharacteristically brief article “A Defence of McTaggart’s Proof of the Unreality of Time” offers a well-known interpretation of McTaggart’s proof, and makes a number of controversial claims about a range of inter-connected theses concerning time and space. I want to sort out what is plausible in what Dummett says from what is not, and identify which theses should be endorsed by A theorists and which by B theorists. It is important, even today, to get clear about these issues and their bearing on Dummett’s interpretation of McTaggart.

Keywords: Time; Space; Dummett; McTaggart

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Time; Space; Dummett; McTaggart