This volume provides a balanced set of reviews which introduce the central topics in the philosophy of time. This is the first introductory anthology on the subject to appear for many years; the contributors are distinguished, and two of the essays are specially written for this collection. In their introduction, the editors summarise the background to the debate, and show the relevance of issues in the philosophy of time for other branches of philosophy and for science.
| ISBN | 0198239998 | | Pages | 236 | | ISBN13 | 9780198239994
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 285 | | Imprint | Oxford University Press | | Published in | Oxford | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Oxford Readings in Philosophy | | Publication date | 25 Mar 1993 | | Height (mm) | 205 | | Non-book description | vi230 | | Width (mm) | 135 | | Library of Congress | BD638.P49 | | Spine width (mm) | 13 | | DEWEY | 115 | | Academic level | Tertiary education | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | |
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Introduction; 1: Time and Tense: J. M. E. McTaggart: The Unreality of Time; Arthur N. Prior: Changes in Events and Changes in Things; D. H. Mellor: The Unreality of Tense; 2: Relationism about Time: Sydney Shoemaker: Time without Change; Graeme Forbes: Time, Events, and Modality; 3: The Direction of Time: Lawrence Sklar: Up and Down, Left and Right, Past and Future; Michael Dummett: Bringing about the Past; David Lewis: The Paradoxes of Time Travel; 4: The Topology of Time; Robin Le Poidevin: Relationism and Temporal Topology: Physics or Metaphysics?; W. H. Newton-Smith: The Beginning of Time; Murray MacBeath: Time's Square; Anthony Quinton: Spaces and Times.
Now the definitive collection. E.J. Lowe, Durham University
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