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Can I read The Moving Spotlight : An Essay on Time and Ontology on EtoBox?
The Moving Spotlight : An Essay on Time and Ontology by Ross P. Cameron is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Moving Spotlight : An Essay on Time and Ontology about?
Ross P. Cameron argues that the flow of time is a genuine feature of reality. He suggests that the best version of the A-Theory is a version of the Moving Spotlight view, according to which past and future beings are real, but there is nonetheless an objectively privileged present. Cameron argues that the Moving Spotlight theory should be viewed as having more in common with Presentism (the view that reality is limited to the present) than with the B-Theory (the view that time is just another di
Who reads The Moving Spotlight : An Essay on Time and Ontology?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ross P. Cameron
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198713296
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Science, Physics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25