Questions of Time and Tense

Robin Le Poidevin

294 pages, parution le 11/03/2002

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Résumé

This book brings together new essays on a major focus of debate in contemporary metaphysics: does time realty 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.

Contents

Notes on the Contributors
Introduction 1

1 The Past, Present, and Future of the Debate about Tense 13
2 Tense and Persistence 43
3 Seeing the Present 61
4 Tense and Emotion 77
5 Real Times and Possible Worlds 93
6 Time as Spacetime 119
7 Absolute Simultaneity and the Infinity of Time 135
8 Freedom and the New Theory of Time 185
9 Morality, the Unborn, and the Open Future 207
10 The Tensed vs. Tenseless Theory of Time: A Watershed for the Conception of Divine Eternity 221

L'auteur - Robin Le Poidevin

Robin Le Poidevin, Professor of Metaphysics, University of Leeds

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Robin Le Poidevin
Parution	11/03/2002
Nb. de pages	294
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	456g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780199250462
ISBN13	978-0-19-925046-2