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The Importance of Time

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Editors:
  1. L. Nathan Oaklander

    1. The University of Michigan-Flint, Flint, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 87)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Book Symposia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Time, Tense, and Causation by Michael Tooley

      1. Tooley on Time and Tense
        • L. Nathan Oaklander
        Pages 3-12
      2. Tooley on Time
        • Storrs Mccall
        Pages 13-19
      3. Actuality and Actuality as of a Time
        • Quentin Smith
        Pages 21-29
      4. Response to the Comments on <i>Time, Tense, and Causation</i> by Storrs McCall, Nathan Oaklander, and Quentin Smith
        • Michael Tooley
        Pages 31-58

  3. Temporal Becoming

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Parmenides’ Complete Rejection of Time

      • Ronald C. Hoy
      Pages 105-129

    3. Reichenbach on Indeterminism and Becoming

      • Iain Martel
      Pages 131-141

    4. Time Flow

      • Storrs McCall
      Pages 143-151

    5. The Incompatibility of STR and the Tensed Theory of Time

      • Quentin Smith
      Pages 153-156

  5. God, Time and Foreknowledge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. On the Alleged Metaphysical Superiority of Timelessness

      • William Lane Craig
      Pages 181-186
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About this book

The Philosophy of Time Society grew out of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on the Philosophy of Time offered by George Schlesinger in 1991. The members of that seminar wanted to promote interest in the philosophy of time and Jon N. Turgerson offered to become the first Director of the society with the initial costs underwritten by the Drake University Center for the Humanities. Thus, the Philosophy of Time Society (PTS) was formed in 1993. Its goal is to promote the study of the philosophy of time from a broad analytic perspective, and to provide a forum as an affiliated group with the American Philosophical Association, to discuss the issues in and related to the philosophy of time. The society held its first meeting during the Eastern Division of the AP A in Atlanta, George, in December 1993. In 1997 I began my tenure as Executive Director of PTS and with my term ending in 2000, I decided to put together a volume of selected papers read at PTS meetings over the years. The result is the present volume. It contains some of the latest developments in the field, including discussions of recent books by Michael Tooley, Time, Tense, and Causation, and D. H. Mellor, Real Time II, and much more. The main issue in the philosophy of time is and remains the status of temporal becoming and the passage of time.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The University of Michigan-Flint, Flint, USA

    L. Nathan Oaklander

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Importance of Time

  • Editors: L. Nathan Oaklander

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3362-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0062-1Published: 31 October 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5841-6Published: 28 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-3362-5Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0921-8599

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 296

  • Topics: Ontology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Science, Phenomenology

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