Comments on D. H. Mellor's Real time II

L. A. Paul

pp. 69-80

in: L. N. Oaklander (ed), The importance of time, Berlin, Springer, 2001

Abstract

Real Time II, Professor Mellor's revised version of his classic Real Time, presents us with a new and well developed B-theory of time. B-theories of time hold that there are no temporal properties of past, present and future. Instead, there are temporal relations of later than, simultaneous with, and earlier than. Mellor argues that what makes "e is past" true at time t is the fact that event e is located at some time earlier than t, while "e is present" is made true at t by the fact that e is located at t, and "e is futur" is made true at t by the fact that e is located at some time later than t.

Cited authors

Mellor D. H.