Concept

B-theory of time

Overview

philosophical theory in which the flow of time is only a subjective illusion of human consciousness and that the past, present and future are equally real, without ontological privileging of the present

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Philosophers who discussed B-theory of time

• Heraclitus
• J. J. C. Smart
• Robin Le Poidevin
• Donald Cary Williams

Related ideas

• Grammatical tense
• Heraclitus
• The Unreality of Time
• Type–token distinction
• Peter van Inwagen
• Theoretical physics
• Perdurantism
• Parmenides
• University of Cambridge
• J. M. E. McTaggart
• Arthur Prior
• A series and B series
• Egocentric presentism
• Perspectival realism
• Roderick Chisholm
• Why am I me?
• J. J. C. Smart
• Consciousness
• Philosophy of space and time
• Seneca the Younger
• Eternalism (philosophy of time)
• Epistemology
• Quentin Smith
• Endurantism

Opposing perspectives

• Endurantism

Place in the tradition

Part of Analytic philosophy.

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