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30 - David Albert: Foundations of Physics, Time’s Arrow, & Moral Expressivism

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The Distinction Between the Forward and the Backward Time Directions

In this scientific direction that we talk about the naturalistic way, we seem to be reducing time to. I don't know if you want to call it laws, but theorizing in some way that doesn't take time as an object. So, reducing it to laws is a very relevant thing. It's possible to go further down than that, and sort of naturalize one conception of what it is that distinguishes the time axis from the spatial axis. What it is that gives rise to it to the category of the temporal in the first place.

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