Robin Le Poidevin (ed.)

Questions of Time and Tense

Herausgeber: Le Poidevin, Robin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together new essays on a major focus of debate in contemporary metaphysics: does time really pass, or is our ordinary experience of time as consisting of past, present, and future an illusion? The international contributors broaden this debate by demonstrating the importance of questions about the nature of time for philosophical issues in ethics, aesthetics, psychology, science, religion, and language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9780199250462
• ISBN-10: 0199250464
• Artikelnr.: 21868180

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

* 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