The Bolck Universe: problems and origin

• Main Author: Mikel HENDA GOMEZ DE SEGURA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Salamanca 2016-12-01
• Series: Artefactos
• Subjects: universo bloque; tiempo; filosofía del tiempo; percepción del tiempo; esencialismo; realismo; realismo ingenuo; idealización; cambio; sesgo cognitivo
• Online Access: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/artefactos/article/view/15593

<p><em>The block universe is an hypothesis that nowadays has a great strength, mainly due to certain relativist space-time interpretations as well as some developments of quantum mechanic’s that disregard the time variable. Likewise, it is possible to arrive to this concept from idealistic philosophical approaches.</em></p><p><em>My goal with this paper is, first, to show the great difficulties that its defenders have to face, at the same time as I present some of the solutions proposed in a critical way. Second, I will try to show that this hypothesis’ origins could be based on the human being’s tendency to deal with the concepts we create in a realistic and essentialist way, in the sense that we take the abstractions that we make as the essence of things.</em></p>