The Philosophy of time /
edited by Robin Le Poidevin and Murray MacBeath.
- vi, 230 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Oxford readings in philosophy .
- Oxford readings in philosophy. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index.
Time and tense : The unreality of time / Changes in events and changes in things / The unreality of tense / Relationism about time : Time without change / Time, events, and modality / Up and down, left and right, past and future / Bringing about the past / The paradoxes of time travel / The topology of time : Relationism and temporal topology : physics or metaphysics? : postscript / The beginning of time / Time's square / Spaces and times / J.M.E. McTaggart -- Arthur N. Prior -- D.H. Mellor -- Sydney Shoemaker -- Graeme Forbes -- Lawrence Sklar -- Michael Dummett -- David Lewis -- Robin Le Poidevin -- W.H. Newton-Smith -- Murray MacBeath -- Anthony Quinton. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. The direction of time : Part 4.
"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.