Some arguments against the possibility of an infinite past

Authors

  • Luca Bellotti University of Pisa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4454/philinq.v11i1.418

Keywords:

infinite past, philosophy of time, eternity of the world

Abstract

In this brief note we discuss some arguments against the purely conceptual possibility of an infinite past, arguing that they are ungrounded and showing how some points of the contemporary debate can be found in some mid-thirteenth-century controversies on the topic.

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Published

2023-03-24

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2023)

Section

Essays

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