Time, Space, Dummett and McTaggart

Brian Garrett

doi:10.1515/mp-2016-0011

Time, Space, Dummett and McTaggart

Brian Garrett^*

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Michael Dummett's fecund and uncharacteristically brief article A Defence of McTaggart's Proof of the Unreality of Time offers a well-known interpretation of McTaggart's proof, and makes a number of controversial claims about a range of inter-connected theses concerning time and space. I want to sort out what is plausible in what Dummett says from what is not, and identify which theses should be endorsed by A theorists and which by B theorists. It is important, even today, to get clear about these issues and their bearing on Dummett's interpretation of McTaggart.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	61-67
Number of pages	7
Journal	Metaphysica
Volume	18
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2016-0011
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2017

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