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URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/time-and-parsimony/
SUMMARY:Time and Parsimony
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Nolan  (Notre Dame University)Reflections on scientific 
 method suggest that we should value parsimony in our theories\, though how
  much parsimony should be valued\, and why it is valuable\, are both quest
 ions that have not been definitively answered. Parsimony has recently play
 ed a role in several arguments about the metaphysics of time: in arguments
  in favour of presentism\, arguments about the size of spacetime\, and arg
 uments about the discreteness of spacetime. In each of these debates\, par
 simony about the number of objects of each kind\, as well as the kinds pos
 tulated\, seem to be playing a key role. As well as pointing out some comm
 on threads in considerations in each of these areas\, I want to point out 
 that parsimony seems to be needed to prop up another piece of philosophica
 l orthodoxy about time. Those who think that continuous time is still an o
 pen theoretical option stand in need of an argument that times only have t
 he structure of the continuum\, rather than one of many options for richer
  metrical structures.
CATEGORIES:Extra talks
LOCATION:Room 409\, Faculty of Philosophy
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