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Explaining Markovian time
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Abstract
I offer a response to the explanatory challenge, ‘Why is time Markovian?’ (i.e. why is it that the future is constrained by the present just as strictly as it is constrained by the entire history of the universe up to and including the present?). My response to this explanatory challenge does not rely on any claims about the ontology of time, undermining a recent empirical argument for Presentism that appeals to the fact that Presentism can be used to address this explanatory challenge. My account shows that we can accept explanatory challenges of this sort, while denying that they lead to any strong metaphysical conclusions.
Title: Explaining Markovian time
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Abstract
I offer a response to the explanatory challenge, ‘Why is time Markovian?’ (i.
e.
why is it that the future is constrained by the present just as strictly as it is constrained by the entire history of the universe up to and including the present?).
My response to this explanatory challenge does not rely on any claims about the ontology of time, undermining a recent empirical argument for Presentism that appeals to the fact that Presentism can be used to address this explanatory challenge.
My account shows that we can accept explanatory challenges of this sort, while denying that they lead to any strong metaphysical conclusions.
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