The Philosophy of time / edited by Robin Le Poidevin and Murray MacBeath.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford readings in philosophyPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993Description: vi, 230 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 019823998X
  • 9780198239987
  • 0198239998
  • 9780198239994
Subject(s):
Contents:
Part 1. Time and tense : The unreality of time / J.M.E. McTaggart -- Changes in events and changes in things / Arthur N. Prior -- The unreality of tense / D.H. Mellor -- Part 2. Relationism about time : Time without change / Sydney Shoemaker -- Time, events, and modality / Graeme Forbes -- Part 3. The direction of time : Up and down, left and right, past and future / Lawrence Sklar -- Bringing about the past / Michael Dummett -- The paradoxes of time travel / David Lewis -- Part 4. The topology of time : Relationism and temporal topology : physics or metaphysics? : postscript / Robin Le Poidevin -- The beginning of time / W.H. Newton-Smith -- Time's square / Murray MacBeath -- Spaces and times / Anthony Quinton.
Review: "The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader. The editors of each volume contribute an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the questions with which they deal. A selective bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading." "This volume presents a balanced set of readings which introduce the central topics in the philosophy of time. It is the first introductory anthology on the subject to appear for many years; two of the essays are specially written for this collection. In their introduction the editors summarize the background to the debate, and show how issues in the philosophy of time are related to other branches of philosophy."--Jacket.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room BD638 .P49 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000046652

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index.

Part 1. Time and tense : The unreality of time / J.M.E. McTaggart -- Changes in events and changes in things / Arthur N. Prior -- The unreality of tense / D.H. Mellor -- Part 2. Relationism about time : Time without change / Sydney Shoemaker -- Time, events, and modality / Graeme Forbes -- Part 3. The direction of time : Up and down, left and right, past and future / Lawrence Sklar -- Bringing about the past / Michael Dummett -- The paradoxes of time travel / David Lewis -- Part 4. The topology of time : Relationism and temporal topology : physics or metaphysics? : postscript / Robin Le Poidevin -- The beginning of time / W.H. Newton-Smith -- Time's square / Murray MacBeath -- Spaces and times / Anthony Quinton.

"The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader. The editors of each volume contribute an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the questions with which they deal. A selective bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading." "This volume presents a balanced set of readings which introduce the central topics in the philosophy of time. It is the first introductory anthology on the subject to appear for many years; two of the essays are specially written for this collection. In their introduction the editors summarize the background to the debate, and show how issues in the philosophy of time are related to other branches of philosophy."--Jacket.

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A reader with various texts my many authors on isses related to the philosophy of time

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