Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 471 g
Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 471 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-925046-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford
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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- 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
- Tense and Egocentricity in Fiction
- Notes on the Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index
