Overview

Questions of Time and Tense aims to develop and broaden a central debate in contemporary metaphysics. This debate focuses on questions about the nature of time: does time really pass? That is, do events become present and then recede into the past? Or is our ordinary conception of time, as consisting of an ever-shifting past, present, and future, merely reflective of our perspective on the world? The editor gives an introductory guide to the debate, outlining the development of rival theories. Then an international line-up of authors contribute eleven essays, all but one specially written for this volume, which demonstrate that these questions are intimately connected with issues in other areas of philosophy. The discussion moves through metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, ethics, and aesthetics.

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Author:   Robin Le Poidevin (, University of Leeds)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.462kg
ISBN:  

9780199250462

ISBN 10:   0199250464
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   14 February 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Robin Le Poidevin: Introduction 1: Robin Le Poidevin: The Past, Present, and Future of the Debate about Tense 2: E. J. Lowe: Tense and Persistence 3: Jeremy Butterfield: Seeing the Present 4: David Cockburn: Tense and Emotion 5: Heather Dyke: Real Times and Possible Worlds 6: Graham Nerlich: Time as Spacetime 7: Quentin Smith: Absolute Simultaneity and the Infinity of Time 8: L. Nathan Oaklander: Freedom and the New Theory of Time 9: Piers Benn: Morality, the Unborn, and the Open Future 10: William Lane Craig: The Tensed vs. Tenseless Theory of Time: A Watershed for the Conception of Divine Eternity 11: Paul Helm: Time and Trinity 12: Gregory Currie: Tense and Egocentricity in Fiction Notes on the Contributors Bibliography Index

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a remarkable collection of essays on the contemporary metaphysical debate concerning the status of our commonsense understanding of time as divided into past, present and future ... a well-produced volume L. B. McHenry, Choice

`Review from previous edition a remarkable collection of essays on the contemporary metaphysical debate concerning the status of our commonsense understanding of time as divided into past, present and future ... a well-produced volume' L B McHenry Choice

Author Information

Robin Le Poidevin is Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Leeds. he is the author of Change, Cause, and Contradiction (1991) and Arguing for Atheism (1996), and co-editor of the volume on The Philosophy of Time in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy series (1993).

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