Ideas of Baron,S/Miller,K, by Theme

[Australian, fl. 2019, at Australian universities]

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2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 2. Infinite Regress
23000 Vicious regresses force you to another level; non-vicious imply another level
5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 7. Paradoxes of Time
23024 A traveller takes a copy of a picture into the past, gives it the artist, who then creates the original!
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding
23008 Grounding is intended as a relation that fits dependences between things
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change
23018 How does a changing object retain identity or have incompatible properties over time?
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
23011 Modern accounts of causation involve either processes or counterfactuals
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
23013 The main process theory of causation says it is transference of mass, energy, momentum or charge
23014 If causes are processes, what is causation by omission? (Distinguish legal from scientific causes?)
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation
23015 The counterfactual theory of causation handles the problem no matter what causes actually are
23016 Counterfactual theories struggle with pre-emption by a causal back-up system
27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / d. Entropy
23009 There is no second 'law' of thermodynamics; it just reflects probabilities of certain microstates
27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 6. Space-Time
23002 In relativity space and time depend on one's motion, but spacetime gives an invariant metric
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / f. Eternalism
22988 The block universe theory says entities of all times exist, and time is the B-series
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / g. Growing block
22991 How can we know this is the present moment, if other times are real?
22992 If we are actually in the past then we shouldn't experience time passing
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism
22994 Erzatz Presentism allows the existence of other times, with only the present 'actualised'
22998 How do presentists explain relations between things existing at different times?
23017 Presentism needs endurantism, because other theories imply most of the object doesn't exist
23023 How can presentists move to the next future moment, if that doesn't exist?
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / i. Denying time
22995 Most of the sciences depend on the concept of time
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / a. Experience of time
22993 For abstractionists past times might still exist, althought their objects don't
23001 The error theory of time's passage says it is either a misdescription or a false inference
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / b. Rate of time
22999 It is meaningless to measure the rate of time using time itself, and without a rate there is no flow
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / d. Time series
22986 The C-series rejects A and B, and just sees times as order by betweenness, without direction
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / e. Tensed (A) series
22996 The A-series has to treat being past, present or future as properties
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / f. Tenseless (B) series
23007 The B-series can have a direction, as long as it does not arise from temporal flow
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / g. Time's arrow
23003 Static theories cannot account for time's obvious asymmetry, so time must be dynamic
23004 The direction of time is either primitive, or reducible to something else
23005 The kaon does not seem to be time-reversal invariant, unlike the rest of nature
23006 Maybe the past is just the direction of decreasing entropy
23010 We could explain time's direction by causation: past is the direction of causes, future of effects
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / h. Change in time
22989 Static time theory presents change as one property at t1, and a different property at t2
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / j. Time travel
23020 If a time traveller kills his youthful grandfather, he both exists and fails to exist
23022 Presentism means there no existing past for a time traveller to visit
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / k. Temporal truths
22987 The past (unlike the future) is fixed, along with truths about it, by the existence of past objects
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / e. Present moment
22990 The moving spotlight says entities can have properties of being present, past or future
22997 The present moment is a matter of existence, not of acquiring a property