Just to be clear: In the section you refer to, he is only pointing out that there is a tension between physics’s view of time and the intuitive, everyday view of time. He summarizes the view of some continental philosophers who say that this tension means physical laws are wrong. He never claims that he, personally, believes that therefore physical laws are wrong.
Indeed, he notes that physicists have always countered that they can explain, using their theories, why we have the intuitions that we have about time. And actually, David Albert is just such a physicist (turned philosopher). He’s spent a large chunk of his career trying to explain how intuitive conceptions of time can be obtained from fundamental physics’s conception of time.
[our world] is not even close to being time-reversal symmetric. And once again, there are proposals on the table for how to fiddle around with the theory. Adding a new law governing initial conditions, for example. There are all kinds of proposals about it. This is a very fundamental challenge. … There’s a way these laws manifestly get things wrong on the macro level, and we need to figure out what to do about that.
Just to be clear: In the section you refer to, he is only pointing out that there is a tension between physics’s view of time and the intuitive, everyday view of time. He summarizes the view of some continental philosophers who say that this tension means physical laws are wrong. He never claims that he, personally, believes that therefore physical laws are wrong.
Indeed, he notes that physicists have always countered that they can explain, using their theories, why we have the intuitions that we have about time. And actually, David Albert is just such a physicist (turned philosopher). He’s spent a large chunk of his career trying to explain how intuitive conceptions of time can be obtained from fundamental physics’s conception of time.
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No, not really?
It’s not clear that there is such a thing as physics’ view of time. One can just do physics with no need for t’s; they’re pretty much superfluous.