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What Makes Time Special?

Craig Callender · 2017 · Oxford University Press

Spiritual Evidence Map/Last updated May 10, 2026/Claims v1.0.0-provisional/Sources v1.0.0/Scores provisional

Summary

Book-length treatment of the conflict between manifest time and physical time, covering relativity, philosophy of time, biology, psychology, and why time appears special to creatures like us.

Why it matters here

Useful modern authority for time pages because it connects physics, metaphysics, and experience rather than reducing the question to a slogan.

Linked claims

Evidence score 7/10

Does time exist?

Umbrella entry for the time question. Time, in some real sense, undeniably organises both experience and physics. Whether it is fundamental, emergent, or illusory is what's actually contested.

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Topic hub

Reality & Time

Physics-adjacent worldviews — block universe, many-worlds, simulation, free will.

Evidence pillar

Reality & time models

Block universe, presentism, eternalism, emergent time.

Evidence pillar

Physics-adjacent worldview theories

Many-worlds, simulation, mathematical universe.