A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time

New York: Oxford University Press (2013)
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A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a concise and accessible survey of the history of philosophical and scientific developments in understanding time and our experience of time. It discusses prominent ideas about the nature of time, plus many subsidiary puzzles about time, from the classical period through the present

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BD638.B335 2013

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9780199301089   9780199976454   0199301085   1531802141   9780199346165
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Epilogue: Is “What Is Time?” the Wrong Question?

The conclusions we have reached about time do not mean we should (or even can) abandon our ordinary ways of thinking about time, given that our experience of time is inherent to perceptual and emotional awareness. Still, I wouldn’t go quite so far as to conclude that our ongoing inquiry in... see more

Introduction: What Does It Mean to Ask, “What Is Time?”

This book concerns the philosophy of time. One might well wonder how a philosophical approach to time different from a scientific, psychological, sociological, literary, or other approach to the subject. Answering this question requires that we briefly examine what philosophy is.

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