Stephen J. Barker

Slurs Sting

Stephen J. Barker, Mihaela Popa‐Wyatt

Transit and Becoming-First Metaphysics

Stephen J. Barker

The motion-first metaphysics is introduced. The first idea is that motion is transit , a fundamental flow through a space. I outline five core aspects of transit: (i) non-locatedness and exclusion of time-points, (ii) non-extensiveness, (iii) with intrinsic direction, (iv) tensed character …

Being-Becoming Dualism

Stephen J. Barker

The being-becoming dualist conception is outlined, comprising views like presentism , growing-block , and moving spotlight . These views are committed to temporal passage. It’s argued that: (i) Dualism cannot explain the phenomenology of experience of change, which requires non-extensive flow; (ii) …

The Appearance of Passage

Stephen J. Barker

This chapter provides a phenomenological sketch of temporal passage and temporal experience. It’s argued that using the standard concepts of time, persistence, and change, we cannot provide adequate phenomenological descriptions of our perceptions of change and persistence. Rather we need the concept …

The Metaphysically Dynamic Universe

Stephen J. Barker

This book develops a new metaphysical framework in which time is motion through a higher dimension. In other words, time literally flows. It breaks through the long debate about time flow and temporal experience in metaphysics by offering an entirely new approach …

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Deriving Time from Transit

Stephen J. Barker

This chapter describes motion-first’s conception of time and times, examining simultaneity, priority, duration, rates of change, and a theory of division of processes into stages. The basic idea presented is that time is not a dimension in M but the motion of …

Being-First Metaphysics

Stephen J. Barker

This chapter sketches the predominant framework for thinking about time, change, and physical reality: the being-first framework. In being-first, concrete reality comprises objects and facts about objects instantiating properties and relations to other objects, and existence is metaphysically primary and change is …

Zeno's Paradoxes and Temporal Dynamicity

Stephen J. Barker

A new kind of solution to Zeno’s paradoxes compatible with the motion-first metaphysics of motion-first is described and defended. The core contention is that Zeno is pointing out a conflict between motion, as irreducible flow, and concepts of time, in particular, a …

Temporal Passage Reborn

Stephen J. Barker

This chapter describes motion-first’s model of temporal passage. The model implies literal time motion. It’s shown how it provides a coherent conception of the four aspects of passage: dynamic present, change of what’s absolutely now, the receding of the past and approaching …

Dynamic Tense

Stephen J. Barker

This chapter describes motion-first’s theory of tense, which has four notable aspects: (i) the present tense is the fundamental tense and presentness is simply occurrence , understood in irreducibly dynamic terms. ‘Present/now’ are non-indexical; (ii) the duration of what’s now/present is a …

Motion as the Essence of Physical Reality

Stephen J. Barker

This chapter describes motion-first’s dynamic model of persisting things and concrete reality. In motion-first, persisting things are dynamic intersections . This is a new kind of theory of entities, accompanied by a new theory property-possession as irreducibly dynamic. Physical matter is defined …

Introduction

Stephen J. Barker

The idea that temporal passage is literally time motion is proposed. The metaphysical framework that can make sense of this idea is motion-first metaphysics: motion is fundamental aspect of the world, irreducible to spatiotemporal facts, and higher dimensional. Three basic metaphysical frameworks …