Absolute becoming, relational becoming and the arrow of time: Some non-conventional remarks on the relationship between physics and metaphysics

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 559-576

  Dorato, Mauro ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arrow of time; Becoming; Eternalism; Metaphysics; Minkowski spacetime; Presentism; Temporal order

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745654129     PISSN: 13552198     EISSN: 18792502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2006.03.003     Document Type: Article

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