Our World Is a Block

Abstract This chapter argues that, taken in totality, the considerations adduced in this book support the conclusion that our world is a block world, because positing robust passage is redundant. As part of this argument, it considers and rejects the idea that positing robust passage allows one to explain process asymmetries. The chapter concludes that there is no reason to posit robust passage arising out of the way the world seems to people, either experientially, or belief-wise, or concept-wise, or attitude-wide, and so there is no reason to posit robust passage. So, they ought not. Given this, the chapter argues that one ought to conclude that the world is a block world. It then presents a new IBE argument to the conclusion that the world is a block world, according to which people know, for a range of events, which lies in the past and which in the future, and the best explanation of this knowledge is that the world is a block world, thereby inferring that the world is a block world.