Other Times: Philosophical Perspectives on Past, Present and Future

ISBN-13: 9780521034081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 372 str.

David Cockburn; Ernest Sosa; Jonathan Dancy

Opis

Current approaches to the question of our position in time--such as those seen in disputes between tensed and tenseless theories, and between realist and anti-realist treatments of past and future--misconstrue the relation between metaphysics and ethics, and the way to characterize the kind of sense which tensed language has. In this original and thought-provoking study, David Cockburn argues that the notion of "reasons for emotion" must have a central place in any account of meaning, and that the present should have no priority in our understanding of tense.