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With this erudite yet very accessible book, Wyller tackles the most central question in the study of time: How do we reconcile the time of physics with time as we experience it? His answer--drawing on history, philosophy, science, and literature--is that time is constituted by consciousness itself. Delightful, synoptic, and laudably interdisciplinary. --Adrian Bardon, Wake Forest University, author of A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time Wyller wades back into the thicket with What Is Time? An Enquiry, published in Norway in 2011 and now available in English translation. . . . The question remains a conundrum to the unaided intellect and too big for any one discipline to monopolize it. Wyller, a professor emeritus of philosophy and religious studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, naturally gives a tip of the hat to Augustine, though the majority of his references are to scientists, philosophers, and the occasional literary figure from the last two or three centuries. . . . A graceful overview. --Scott McLemee Inside Higher Ed

With this erudite yet very accessible book, Wyller tackles the most central question in the study of time: How do we reconcile the time of physics with time as we experience it? His answer--drawing on history, philosophy, science, and literature--is that time is constituted by consciousness itself. Delightful, synoptic, and laudably interdisciplinary. --Adrian Bardon, Wake Forest University, author of A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time Inside Higher Ed Wyller wades back into the thicket with What Is Time? An Enquiry, published in Norway in 2011 and now available in English translation. . . . The question remains a conundrum to the unaided intellect and too big for any one discipline to monopolize it. Wyller, a professor emeritus of philosophy and religious studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, naturally gives a tip of the hat to Augustine, though the majority of his references are to scientists, philosophers, and the occasional literary figure from the last two or three centuries. . . . A graceful overview. --Scott McLemee Inside Higher Ed

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Truls Wyller (Author) Truls Wyller is Professor Emeritus at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. He is the author of many books including Objectivity and Self-Consciousness (2000) and The Size of Things: An Essay on Space and Time (2010).

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