This book will be of interest to students and professional philosophers in the field of analytic philosophy.

Jeremiah Joven Joaquin is an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, where he is also a Research Fellow at the Southeast Asian Research Center and Hub and a Research Affiliate at the Center for Language Technologies. He specializes in metaphysics and logic. Presently, he is the President of the Philosophical Association of the Philippines and the founding Secretary-General of the Union of Societies and Associations of Philosophy in the Philippines. 

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgement

Part I. Time

1. "Thank Goodness that's Over Revisited

1.1 Prior's Puzzle and the Two Views about the Nature of Time

1.2 Responses to Prior's Puzzle

1.3 A Riposte

1.4 Concluding Remarks

References

2. Experience and Time

2.1 Justifying our Bias towards the Present

2.2 Value and the Metaphysics of Time

2.3 Concluding Remarks

References

3. Max Black and Backward Causation

3.1 Black's Main Claim

3.2 Black's Two Arguments

3.3 Analysing Black's Arguments

References

4. Dummett on Reasons to Act and Bringing about the Past

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Dissecting Dummett's Argument

4.3 The Second Sceptical Argument

4.4 The Third Sceptical Argument

4.5 Conclusion

References

5. Dummett on McTaggart's Proof of the Unreality of Time

5.1 Introduction

5.2 McTaggart's Argument

5.3 Temporal versus Spatial Immersion

5.4 Observer-independence

References

6. A Note on the Grandfather Paradox

6.1 Lewis's Theory

6.2 Against Lewis's Theory

6.3 Conclusion

References

7. Bulletproof Grandfathers, David Lewis, and 'Can't'-Judgements

7.1 A General Argument

7.2 Misapplied Contextualism

7.3 A Time Symmetry Argument

7.4 Alternative Arguments

7.5 Concluding Remarks

References

8. A Dilemma for Eternalists

8.1 Introduction

8.2 The Dilemma

8.3 Some Options

8.4 An Upshot

References

Part II. Identity

9. Identity and Extrinsicness

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Setting Up the Problem

9.3 Mackie on Best-Candidate Theories of Identity

9.4 Assessing Mackie

9.5 Conclusion

References

10. Best Candidate Theories and Identity

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Best-Candidate Theories of Identity

10.3 Brennan's Interpretation

10.4 Assessing Brennan's Response

10.5 Final Words

References

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Forbes's Cases

11.3 On Forbes's Grounded Transworld Identities

11.4 Conclusion

References

12. Vague Identity and Vague Objects

12.1 Getting Clear about the Vague Identity Thesis

12.2 Considering The Ship of Theseus

12.3 Evans's Proof

12.4 Responses to Evans's Proof

12.5 The Correct Response to Evans's Proof

12.6 A General Result

12.7 Conclusion

13. More on Rigidity and Scope

13.1 More's Thesis

13.2 More's Arguments

13.3 Why More's Arguments Fail

13.4 Conclusion

References

14. Enduring Endurantism

14.1 Barker and Dowe's First Argument

14.2 Barker and Dowe's Second Argument

14.3 Barker and Dowe's Third Argument

14.4 Conclusion

References

15. Identity of Truth-Conditions

15.1 Analysis Problem no. 19

15.2 The Solution

References

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