Aristotle's Revenge by Edward Feser

Author:Edward Feser [Edward Feser]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783868381993
Publisher: EDITIONES SCHOLASTICAE

4.3.3 Aristotle versus Einstein?

4.3.3.1 Making a metaphysics of method

Again, though, it might seem that dynamic change and temporal passage have been banished from nature by Einstein, and in particular by the Minkowski space-time interpretation of the Special Theory of Relativity (STR). Michael Lockwood sums up a common view:

To take the space-time view seriously is indeed to regard everything that ever exists, or ever happens, at any time or place, as being just as real as the contents of the here and now. And this rules out any conception of free will that pictures human agents, through their choices, as selectively conferring actuality on what are initially only potentialities. Contrary to this common-sense conception, the world according to Minkowski is, at all times and places, actuality through and through: a four-dimensional block universe. (Lockwood 2005, pp. 68-69)

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