McTaggart's Paradox

R. D. Ingthorsson is a Lecturer at Lund University, Sweden. He has published in The European Journal of Philosophy, Dialectica, Metaphysica, and Axiomathes, and co-edited the celebrated Mental Causation and Ontology. His next project is "Scientific Essentialism: Modernising the Aristotelian View", funded by The Bank of Sweden Tercentenial Foundation.

• Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Metaphysics 3. The Argument 4. The C Series 5. The Defences 6. The Objections 7. The B View and the Problem of Change 8. The A View and the Problem of Tense9. The Conclusion

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