Everything, everywhere, but not all at once? Time, contingency and the open future
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Published:2023-11-15
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ISSN:0021-8308
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Container-title:Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
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language:en
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Short-container-title:J Theory Soc Behav
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1. School of Economics, Analytics and International Business Leeds Beckett University Leeds UK
Abstract
AbstractThe subject of this special forum is contingency and the openness of the future, and in this essay we take a route not often travelled in regard of these and focus first on philosophy of time. We contrast static and dynamic theory of time in order to (eventually) acquire some traction on the meaning of both contingency and the open future. We suggest critical realism presupposes dynamic theory and that critical realism provides various conceptualizations that might contribute to dynamic theory.
Subject
General Psychology,Philosophy,Social Psychology
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