1st Edition
The Metaphysically Dynamic Universe How Motion is the Essence of Time and Physical Reality
Introduction: The Possibility of Motion-First Metaphysics
1. The Appearance of Passage
2. Being-First Metaphysics
3. Being-Becoming Dualism
4. Transit and Becoming-First Metaphysics
5. Motion as the Essence of Physical Reality
6. Deriving Time from Transit
7. Dynamic Tense: Present, Past, and Future
8. Zeno’s Paradoxes and Temporal Dynamicity
9. Temporal Passage Reborn
Biography
Stephen Barker is a philosopher at the University of Nottingham; prior to that he held positions at UNAM, Mexico, University of Tasmania, and Monash University. He has published in Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics on counterfactuals, powers ontology, persistence and paradox, negative states of affairs, bundle theory, and global expressivism.
"This book is an ambitious and provocative statement of a novel view that is worthy of serious consideration. Barker develops and defends a new 'motion-first' theory of time, pushing back against prevailing orthodoxies, particularly views according to which temporal reality is somehow static and time’s motion is merely metaphorical rather than literal. Barker responds with characteristic boldness: Eppur si muove!"
David Ingram, University of York, UK
