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  1. There’s No Time like the Present.Steven F. Savitt - 2000 - Philosophy of Science 67 (3):574.
    Mark Hinchliff concludes a recent paper, "The Puzzle of Change," with a section entitled "Is the Presentist Refuted by the Special Theory of Relativity?" His answer is "no." I respond by arguing that presentists face great difficulties in merely stating their position in Minkowski spacetime. I round up some likely candidates for the job and exhibit their deficiencies.
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    (1 other version)On Absolute Becoming and the Myth of Passage.Steven F. Savitt - 2002 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 50:153-167.
    J. M. E. McTaggart, in a famous argument, denied the reality of time because he thought that passage or temporal becoming was essential for the existence of time and that passage was a self-contradictory concept. This denial of passage has provoked a vast literature, two of the most important contributions being C. D. Broad’s painstaking defence of passage in his Examination of McTaggart’s Philosophy and D. C. Williams’ dazzling condemnation of it “The Myth of Passage.” -/- A careful reading of (...)
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    The transient nows.Steven F. Savitt - 2009 - In Wayne C. Myrvold & Joy Christian (eds.), Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle. Springer. pp. 349--362.
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    Time’s Arrows Today: Recent Physical and Philosophical Work on the Direction of Time.Steven Frederick Savitt (ed.) - 1995 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    While experience tells us that time flows from the past to the present and into the future, a number of philosophical and physical objections exist to this commonsense view of dynamic time. In an attempt to make sense of this conundrum, philosophers and physicists are forced to confront fascinating questions, such as: Can effects precede causes? Can one travel in time? Can the expansion of the Universe or the process of measurement in quantum mechanics define a direction in time? In (...)
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  5. The replacement of time.Steven F. Savitt - 1994 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 72 (4):463 – 474.
  6. A Limited Defense of Passage.Steven F. Savitt - 2001 - American Philosophical Quarterly 38 (3):261 - 270.
    J. M. E. McTaggart’s anti-passage argument (the argument that time is “unreal) has misled philosophers of time for almost a century. The present paper shows that the clearest formulation of this argument, that of D. H. Mellor in Real Time II, is unsound when its premises are interpreted so that it is valid and invalid when it so interpreted that it is sound). This argument need mislead us no longer. -/- The crucial item in the interpretation of the premises is (...)
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  7. The Direction of Time.Steven F. Savitt - 1996 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (3):347-370.
    The aim of this essay is to introduce philosophers of science to some recent philosophical discussions of the nature and origin of the direction of time. The essay is organized around books by Hans Reichenbach, Paul Horwich, and Huw Price. I outline their major arguments and treat certain critical points in detail. I speculate at the end about the ways in which the subject may continue to develop and in which it may connect with other areas of philosophy.
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  8. In Search of Passing Time.Steven F. Savitt - 2020 - In Reinoud Jan Slagter & Zoltán Keresztes (eds.), Spacetime 1909 - 2019.
    I present an account of the passage of time and the present in relativistic spacetimes, and I defend these views against recent criticism by Oliver Pooley and Craig Callender.
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  9. Time's Arrows Today.Steven F. Savitt - 1998 - Mind 107 (425):250-253.
     
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  10. I ❤️ ♦️ S.Steven F. Savitt - 2015 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 50:19-24.
    Richard Arthur and I proposed that the present in Minkowski spacetime should be thought of as a small causal diamond. That is, given two timelike separated events p and q, with p earlier than q, they suggested that the present is the set I+ ∩ I-. Mauro Dorato presents three criticisms of this proposal. I rebut all three and then offer two more plausible criticisms of the Arthur/Savitt proposal. I argue that these criticisms also fail.
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    Time’s Arrow Today: Recent Physical and Philosophical Work on the Direction of Time.Katinka Ridderbos & Steven F. Savitt - 1997 - Philosophical Review 106 (4):627.
    One of the questions that is addressed, from various perspectives, is the origin of time-asymmetry. Given the time-symmetry of the dynamical laws, all inferences about the future that are derivable from a dynamical theory are matched by inferences about the past. For Huw Price, who discusses the origins of cosmological time asymmetry, this is reason to treat all time-asymmetric cosmological theories with caution. He dismisses both the inflationary model and Stephen Hawking’s proposal to account for time-asymmetry with his famous “no (...)
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  12. Is classical mechanics time reversal invariant?Steven F. Savitt - 1994 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (3):907-913.
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    Introduction.Steven F. Savitt - 2006 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 37 (3):393.
  14. Second-guessing second nature.Paul Bartha & Steven F. Savitt - 1998 - Analysis 58 (4):252–263.
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    (1 other version)Epistemological Time Asymmetry.Steven F. Savitt - 1990 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990:317 - 324.
    In a recent book, Asymmetries in Time, Paul Horwich presents a systematic account of various temporal asymmetries, including a neo-Reichenbachian account of the (apparent) fact that we know more about the past than the future, the epistemological time asymmetry. I find some obscurities in Horwich's presentation, however, and I argue that when his view is understood in a way that I shall propose, it does represent an advance on Reichenbach's, but it fails to vindicate Horwich's "main point...that our special knowledge (...)
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    Rorty's disappearance theory.Steven F. Savitt - 1975 - Philosophical Studies 28 (6):433-36.
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    Searle's demon and the brain simulator.Steven F. Savitt - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (2):342-343.
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    Wittgenstein’s Early Philosophy of Mathematics.Steven F. Savitt - 1979 - Philosophy Research Archives 5:539-553.
    Wittgenstein's remarks in his Tractatus on mathematics are quite obscure. Benacerraf and Putnam wrote, "In his Tractatus Loqico-Philosophicus, Wittgenstein maintained, following Russell and Frege, that mathematics was reducible to logic." On the other hand, Max Black claims, "Wittgenstein does not regard mathematics as reducible to logic, in the manner of Whitehead and Russell." I offer a detailed commentary upon Wittgenstein's remarks, concluding that his views most likely do not follow those of Frege and Russell. I reject a criticism of Wittgenstein (...)
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    Tachyon Signals, Causal Paradoxes, and the Relativity of Simultaneity.Steven F. Savitt - 1982 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1982:277 - 292.
    Some elementary properties of tachyons are described and then it is argued that the claim that (T) Tachyons exist, is incompatible with the truth of the Special Theory of Relativity (STR). First it is argued that from T, STR, and the negation of the principle that (Pl) Effect never precedes cause, one can derive a paradoxical conclusion, one of the so-called "causal paradoxes". An obvious response is to affirm (Pl), but then it is argued that (Pl) and (T) entail that (...)
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    Of Time and the Two Images.Steven F. Savitt - 2012 - Humana Mente 5 (21).
    In this paper I argue that the clash of the Sellars’ two images is particularly acute in the case of time. In Time and the World Order Sellars seems embarked on a quest to locate manifest time in Minkowski spacetime. I suggest that he should have argued for the replacement of manifest time with the local, path-dependent time of the “scientific image”, just as he suggests that manifest objects must be replaced by their scientific counterparts.
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  21. 2-Avslmme. City ofqod (llartnottdsworthz Penguin Books, 1984). _.Steven F. Savitt - 1990 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 41:461-472.
     
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    Absolute informational content.Steven F. Savitt - 1987 - Synthese 70 (February):185-90.
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    Critical Notice.Steven F. Savitt - 1999 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 29 (3):479-490.
  24. Davidson's psycho-physical anomalism.Steven F. Savitt - 1979 - Nature and System 1 (September):203-213.
  25. (1 other version)Fred I. Dretske, Knowledge and the Flow of Information Reviewed by.Steven F. Savitt - 1983 - Philosophy in Review 3 (2):55-58.
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    The Structure of Scientific Theories, edited and with a critical introduction by Frederick Suppe.Steven F. Savitt - 1977 - Dialogue 16 (2):328-345.
    This volume is the record of a symposium on the structer of scientific theories held in urbana, Illinois in the spring of 1969. ofSeven main papers, commentaries, discussions, and a postscript form the bulk of the book. The rest is a nearly 240-page monograph-in-the-guise-of-an-introduction by the editor titled “The Search for Philosophic Understanding of Scientific Theories”.
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    World Enough and Space-Time.Steven F. Savitt - 1992 - Dialogue 31 (4):701-.
    John Earman's new book,World Enough and Space-Time, is a brisk account of the controversy between space-time absolutists and relationists. The book is intended, one is told, to be “appropriate for use in an upper-level undergraduate or beginning graduate course in the philosophy of science”, but Earman's no-holds-barred approach to the mathematics of space-time theories will have bludgeoned most philosophical readers, undergraduate or beyond, into submission long before it is revealed that Pirani and Williams “have studied the integrability conditions for Born-rigid (...)
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  28. The Structure and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics R. I. G. Hughes Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 1989, ix + 369 pp., US$42.50. [REVIEW]Steven F. Savitt - 1993 - Dialogue 32 (4):833-.
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    Craig Callender's What Makes Time Special? [REVIEW]Steven F. Savitt - 2018 - BJPS Review of Books.
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    Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic Physics Philosophy of Science Michael Friedman Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. xvi, 385. $35.00. [REVIEW]Steven F. Savitt - 1986 - Dialogue 25 (2):388-.