
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1997
Pages: 203-213
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9789048147748
Full citation:
, "Do times exist?", in: Perspectives on time, Berlin, Springer, 1997


Do times exist?
pp. 203-213
in: Jan Faye, UWE Scheffler, Max Urchs (eds), Perspectives on time, Berlin, Springer, 1997Abstract
Do Times exist? The answer to this question depends on what conception of reality the question assumes. Three forms of reality can be applied to physical entities: first, reality in the sense of actuality; second, reality in the sense of objectivity; and third, reality in the sense of causal activity. I will suggest that relativity theory renders implausible the first way to spell out the reality of time instances, whereas the second way is left open. The third way will not be discussed here, as no contemporary physical theory supplies time instances with causal agency.
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1997
Pages: 203-213
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9789048147748
Full citation:
, "Do times exist?", in: Perspectives on time, Berlin, Springer, 1997