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    Language and Time.Quentin Smith - 1993 - New York: Oup Usa.
    Quentin Smith offers powerful arguments against the New Theory of Reference propounded by leading thhinkers in the philosophy of language. Smith defends the tensed theory of time and argues that the simultaneity is absoltue, basing this position on the theory that all propositions exist in time. Using detailed propostitions and a theory of cognitive significance, he introduces an alternative interpretation of reference that will be relevant to metaphysicians, philosophers of science and philosophers of language and may come (...)
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  2. A defense of a principle of sufficient reason.Quentin Smith - 1995 - Metaphilosophy 26 (1‐2):97-106.
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    Concerning the Absurdity of Life.Quentin Smith - 1991 - Philosophy 66 (255):119 - 121.
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    Language and the Phenomenological Reductions of Edumund Husserl.Quentin Smith - 1978 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 39 (2):286-288.
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    Alexius Meinong: On Objects of Higher Order and Husserl's Phenomenology.Quentin Smith - 1982 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 42 (3):451-452.
  6. The New Theory of Time.L. Nathan Oaklander & Quentin Smith (eds.) - 1994 - Yale Up.
    The Preface and the General Introduction to the book set the debate within the wider philosophical context and show why the subject of temporal becoming is a perennial concern of science, religion, language, logic, and the philosophy of ...
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    Language and time.Quentin Smith - 1993 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    This book offers a defense of the tensed theory of time, a critique of the New Theory of Reference, and an argument that simultaneity is absolute. Although Smith rejects ordinary language philosophy, he shows how it is possible to argue from the nature of language to the nature of reality. Specifically, he argues that semantic properties of tensed sentences are best explained by the hypothesis that they ascribe to events temporal properties of futurity, presentness, or pastness and do not (...)
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    Four Teleological Orders of Human Action.Quentin Smith - 1981 - Philosophical Topics 12 (3):213-230.
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    Schelers Stratification of Emotional Life and Strawson’s Person.Quentin Smith - 1976 - Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 25:103-127.
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    Schelers Stratification of Emotional Life and Strawson’s Person.Quentin Smith - 1976 - Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 25:103-127.
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    Time and Experience. [REVIEW]Quentin Smith - 1993 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (3):736-739.
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  12. Theism, atheism, and big bang cosmology.William Lane Craig & Quentin Smith - 1993 - New York: Oxford University Press. Edited by Quentin Smith.
    Contemporary science presents us with the remarkable theory that the universe began to exist about fifteen billion years ago with a cataclysmic explosion called "the Big Bang." The question of whether Big Bang cosmology supports theism or atheism has long been a matter of discussion among the general public and in popular science books, but has received scant attention from philosophers. This book sets out to fill this gap by means of a sustained debate between two philosophers, William Lane Craig (...)
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  13. Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology.William Lane Craig & Quentin Smith - 1996 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 17 (1):112-117.
     
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    Semantics, Tense, and Time.Quentin Smith - 2002 - Philosophical Review 111 (2):278-281.
    The primary goal of Peter Ludlow's Semantics, Tense, and Time is to illustrate how one can study metaphysical issues from a linguistic/semantic perspective by addressing the debate between tenseless theorists and tensed theorists. Ludlow's book is noteworthy in part because of the novelty of its approach to this debate and in part because it addresses and endeavors to solve the metaphysical problems of temporal solipsism that other temporal solipsists have not addressed.
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  15. Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology.William Lane Craig & Quentin Smith - 1994 - Religious Studies 30 (4):527-529.
     
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    Time, Tense, and Reference.C. Aleksandar Joki & Quentin Smith - 2003 - Bradford Books.
    Original essays by philosophers of language and philosophers of time exploring the semantics and metaphysics of tense.
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  17. Einstein, relativity, and absolute simultaneity.William Lane Craig & Quentin Smith - 2007 - In Michael Beaney (ed.), The Analytic Turn: Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology. Routledge.
     
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  18. Collins on cannons and cosmology.Paul Draper & Quentin Smith - 2008
    In "A Cosmological Argument for a Self-Caused Universe ," one of us (Smith) argued that the universe explains its own existence because (i) its existence is entailed by (and so explained by) the existence of the infinitely many instantaneous universe states that compose it, and (ii) each of those states is caused by (and so explained by) infinitely many earlier universe states.[1] Moreover, (ii) is true even if the universe is finitely old because, given standard Big Bang cosmology (Friedmann (...)
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  19. Time and Degrees of Existence: A Theory of 'Degree Presentism'.Quentin Smith - 2002 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 50:119-.
    It seems intuitively obvious that what I am doing right now is more real than what I did just one second ago, and it seems intuitively obvious that what I did just one second ago is more real than what I did forty years ago. And yet, remarkably, every philosopher of time today, except for the author, denies this obvious fact about reality. What went wrong? How could philosophers get so far away from what is the most experientially evident fact (...)
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    Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom. [REVIEW]Quentin Smith - 1993 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (2):493-495.
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  21. A natural explanation of the existence and laws of our universe.Quentin Smith - 1990 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 68 (1):22 – 43.
    The standard view of philosophers is that the existence of particular events within our universe is capable of being explained in terms of initial conditions and natural laws, but that the existence of our universe itself is a 'brute given' that is incapable of naturalistic explanation. A supernatural explanation of the existence of our universe may be alleged to be possible ('God created our universe so that humans may exist and the existence of humans is an intrinsic good'), but an (...)
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    Atheism, theism and big Bang cosmology.Quentin Smith - 1991 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 69 (1):48 – 66.
    The following article was originally published in Australasian Journal of Philosophy March 1991 (Volume 69, No.
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    Time, Tense and Causation.Quentin Smith & Michael Tooley - 1999 - Philosophical Review 108 (1):123.
    The main goal of Michael Tooley’s groundbreaking book is to establish a position intermediate between the tenseless theory of time and the standard tensed theory of time. Tooley argues for a novel version of the tensed theory of time, namely, that the future is unreal and the present and past real, and yet that reality consists only of tenseless facts. The question that naturally arises for the reader concerns an apparent paradox: how could the tensed theory of time be true (...)
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  24. Infinity and the past.Quentin Smith - 1987 - Philosophy of Science 54 (1):63-75.
    infinite, and offer several arguments in sup port of this thesis. I believe their arguments are unsuccessful and aim to refute six of them in the six sections of the paper. One of my main criticisms concerns their supposition that an infinite series of past events must contain some events separated from the present event by an infinite number of intermediate events, and consequently that from one of these infinitely distant past events the present could never have been reached. I (...)
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  25. An atheological argument from evil natural laws.Quentin Smith - 1991 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 29 (3):159 - 174.
    A clearer case of a horrible event in nature, a natural evil, has never been presented to me. It seemed to me self evident that the natural law that animals must savagely kill and devour each other in order to survive was an evil natural law and that the obtaining of this law was sufficient evidence that God did not exist. If I held a certain epistemological theory about "basic beliefs", I might conclude from this experience that my intuition that (...)
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  26. The multiple uses of indexicals.Quentin Smith - 1989 - Synthese 78 (2):167--191.
    you use it. These two assumptions, which I believe to be false, are based on a more fundamental assumption, that the rule governing the reference of an indexical remains constant from use to use. Contemporary theories hold that the reference of an indexical varies from use to (relevantly different) use, but that the reference-fixing rule of use is You can search..
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  27. Stephen Hawking's Cosmology and Theism.Quentin Smith - 1994 - Analysis 54 (4):236-243.
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    World Ensemble Explanations.Quentin Smith - 1986 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 67 (1):73-86.
  29. Marcus, Kripke, and the origin of the new theory of reference.Quentin Smith - 1995 - Synthese 104 (2):179 - 189.
    In this paper, presented at an APA colloquium in Boston on December 28, 1994, it is argued that Ruth Barcan Marcus' 1961 article on Modalities and Intensional Languages originated many of the key ideas of the New Theory of Reference that have often been attributed to Saul Kripke and others. For example, Marcus argued that names are directly referential and are not equivalent to contingent descriptions, that names are rigid designators, and that identity sentences with co-referring names are necessary if (...)
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    An Analysis of Holiness.Quentin Smith - 1988 - Religious Studies 24 (4):511 - 527.
    This inquiry is motivated by the question: if atheism is true, is it nevertheless the case that holiness or sacredness is exemplified? I believe the answer to this question is affirmative, and that the path to its affirmation lies in the rejection of the traditional assumption that holiness is a single and simple property of a divinity that eludes analysis. The opposite view, that there are several complex properties comprising holiness, makes it manifest that there are holy beings, even a (...)
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    Consciousness: New Philosophical Perspectives.Aleksandar Jokic & Quentin Smith (eds.) - 2002 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Consciousness is perhaps the most puzzling problem we humans face in trying to understand ourselves. It has been the subject of intense study for several decades, but, despite substantial progress, the most difficult problems have still not reached any generally agreed solution. Future research can start with this book. Eighteen original, specially written essays offer new angles on the subject. The contributors, who include many of the leading figures in philosophy of mind, discuss such central topics as intentionality, phenomenal content, (...)
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  32. Einstein, relativity, and absolute simultaneity.William Lane Craig & Quentin Smith - 2007 - In Heather Dyke (ed.), Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy. Routledge.
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  33. Einstein, relativity and absolute simultaneity.William Lane Craig & Quentin Smith - 2007 - In Jennifer McMahon (ed.), Aesthetics and Material Beauty: Aesthetics Naturalized. New York: Routledge.
     
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  34. A Big Bang Cosmological Argument for God's Nonexistence.Quentin Smith - 1992 - Faith and Philosophy 9 (2):217-237.
    The big bang cosmological theory is relevant to Christian theism and other theist perspectives since it represents the universe as beginning to exist ex nihilo about 15 billion years ago. This paper addresses the question of whether it is reasonable to believe that God created the big bang. Some theists answer in the affirmative, but it is argued in this paper that this belief is not reasonable. In the course of this argument, there is a discussion of the metaphysical necessity (...)
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  35. Causation and the Logical Impossibility of a Divine Cause.Quentin Smith - 1996 - Philosophical Topics 24 (1):169-191.
    I think that virtually all contemporary theists, agnostics and atheists believe this is logically possible. Indeed, the main philosophical tradition from Plato to the present has assumed that the sentence, "God is the originating cause of the universe", does not express a logical contradiction, even though many philosophers have argued that this sentence either is synthetic and meaningless (e.g., the logical positivists) or states a synthetic and a priori falsehood (e.g., Kant and Moore), or states a synthetic and a posteriori (...)
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    The Conceptualist Argument for God's Existence.Quentin Smith - 1994 - Faith and Philosophy 11 (1):38-49.
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    Stephen Hawking's "Cosmology and Theism".Quentin Smith - 1994 - Analysis 54 (4):236.
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    Ethical and Religious Thought in Analytic Philosophy of Language.Quentin Smith - 1997 - New Haven, CT, USA: Yale University Press.
    This is a critical history of analytic philosophy from its inception in the late-19th century to the present day. The book focuses on the connections between the four leading movements in the field - logical realism, logical positivism, ordinary language analysis and linguistic essentialism.
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    Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity.William Lane Craig & Quentin Smith (eds.) - 2004 - Routledge.
    Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity is an anthology of original essays by an international team of leading philosophers and physicists who have come together to reassess the contemporary paradigm of the relativistic concept of time. A great deal has changed since 1905 when Einstein proposed his Special Theory of Relativity, and this book offers a fresh reassessment of Special Relativity’s relativistic concept of time in terms of epistemology, metaphysics, and physics.
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  40. A Phenomenological Examination of Husserls Theory of Hyletic Data.Quentin Smith - 1977 - Philosophy Today 21 (4):356-367.
    I endeavor to explain husserl's theory of hyletic data, And to show that there is no phenomenological evidence for the existence of such data. I explain husserl's theory that hyletic data include the perceptual sensations that are immanent to consciousness, And that correspond to the objective sense properties that belong to the perceived object. The hyletic sensations do not appear, But are endowed with a meaning by the perceptual consciousness, And by means of this meaning-Endowment, The perceptual consciousness achieves an (...)
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    Sentences about time.Quentin Smith - 1987 - Philosophical Quarterly 37 (146):37-53.
    do not really ascribe A-properties. Tensed sentences or their tokens, it is argued, are logically equivalent to, or have the same meaning as, tenseless sentences about events, and thus possess the same reference as the tenseless sentences, viz., to events with B-relations. It would follow that time has only one aspect, the B-aspect. You can search..
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  42. The anthropic principle and many-worlds cosmologies.Quentin Smith - 1985 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 63 (3):336 – 348.
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    Temporal indexicals.Quentin Smith - 1990 - Erkenntnis 32 (1):5--25.
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    Time, Change and Freedom: Introduction to Metaphysics.Quentin Smith & L. Nathan Oaklander - 1995 - Mind 107 (425):253-256.
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  45. Absolute Simultaneity.William Lane Craig & Quentin Smith (eds.) - 2006 - Routledge.
     
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  46. Problems with the new tenseless theory of time.Quentin Smith - 1987 - Philosophical Studies 52 (3):371 - 392.
    The new tenseless theory of time, Developed primarily by j j c smart and d h mellor, States that tensed sentence-Utterances cannot be translated by tenseless ones but nevertheless have tenseless truth conditions. Smart and mellor infer from this that the tenseless theory of time is true. The author argues, However, That the rules of use of tensed sentence-Utterances entail that these utterances also have tensed truth conditions. This implies that the tensed theory of time is true.
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  47. The uncaused beginning of the universe.Quentin Smith - 1988 - Philosophy of Science 55 (1):39-57.
    There is sufficient evidence at present to justify the belief that the universe began to exist without being caused to do so. This evidence includes the Hawking-Penrose singularity theorems that are based on Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, and the recently introduced Quantum Cosmological Models of the early universe. The singularity theorems lead to an explication of the beginning of the universe that involves the notion of a Big Bang singularity, and the Quantum Cosmological Models represent the beginning largely in (...)
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  48. The Metaphilosophy of Naturalism.Quentin Smith - 2001 - Philo 4 (2):195-215.
    The metaphilosophy of naturalism is about the nature and goals of naturalist philosophy. A real or..
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  49. Anthropic explanations in cosmology.Quentin Smith - 1994 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 72 (3):371 – 382.
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    Time, Tense, and Reference.Aleksandar Jokić & Quentin Smith (eds.) - 2003 - MIT Press.
    Original essays by philosophers of language and philosophers of time exploring the semantics and metaphysics of tense.
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