The Importance of Time

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. Real Time II by D.H. Mellor

      1. McTaggart, Change and Real Tense: A Critical Notice of Hugh Mellor’s <i>Real Time II</i>

         • Mark Hinchliff

         Pages 59-67

      2. Comments on D. H. Mellor’s <i>Real Time II</i>

         • L. A. Paul

         Pages 69-80

      3. Time, Consciousness and the Knowledge Argument

         • John Perry

         Pages 81-93

      4. Real Time II: Replies to Hinchliff, Paul and Perry

         • D. H. Mellor

         Pages 95-102

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

4. The Phenomenology of Time

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Experiencing the Future: Kantian Thoughts on Husserl

      • Eric M. Rubenstein

      Pages 159-169

   3. The Theoretical Character of Husserl’s Account of Time Consciousness (Comments on Professor Rubenstein’s Paper)

      • Ronald C. Hoy

      Pages 171-177

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

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.

• 15th century
• Edmund Husserl
• Immanuel Kant
• Parmenides
• consciousness
• determinism
• knowledge
• nature
• phenomenology
• philosophy
• space
• time

• The University of Michigan-Flint, Flint, USA

  L. Nathan Oaklander

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