Hakimi, Wakil Ahmad: The Impossibility of an Actually Infinite Future: A Theory-Neutral Argument from Structural Incoherence

Arguments against an infinite past often rely on the impossibility of traversing an actual infinite. This paper develops a parallel argument against an actually infinite future without appealing to controversial grounding principles or any single theory of time. It argues that dynamic theories of time generate a tension between finitude and potential infinitude when they deny an actually infinite future, while static theories face the same structural problems for an infinite future that the Kala