Nov 3

Tense

Topic

We will have special guest lecturers for today's class! Paul Hovda (Reed) and Michael Nelson (UC Riverside) will discuss mereology in connection with combining Presentism with various views of persistence.

This week's required reading:

Read section 5 of my paper below (and I'll also go over it in class). Also, read as much as you can of Paul Hovda's paper, especially focusing on sections 1 and 3 (especially sections 3.3 and 3.4).

Kleinschmidt - Presentist Perdurance and Parthood

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Hovda - Tensed Mereology

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Additional, helpful papers:

Brogaard - Presentist Four-Dimensionalism

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Mitchell-Yellin and Nelson - S5 for Aristotelian Actualists

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Reminder

Next week you'll present your paper proposals in class.

No Presentations!

We'll spend the whole meeting on this week's topic!