Fragmenting Reality: An Essay on Passage, Causality and Time Travel

The growing interest in fragmentalism is one of the most exciting trends in philosophy of time and is gradually reshaping the contemporary debate. Providing an extensive interpretation of this view, Samuele Iaquinto and Giuliano Torrengo articulate a novel theory of the passage of time and argue that it is the most effective in vindicating the inherent dynamism of reality.
Iaquinto and Torrengo offer the first full-range application of fragmentalism to a number of metaphysical topics, including the open future, causation, the A-theoretic interpretation of special relativity and time travel. The resulting picture, they argue, conveys the potential of a radically new understanding of time.

Samuele Iaquinto is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy and Education at the University of Turin, Italy.

Giuliano Torrengo is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan, Italy.