The Philosophy of Time: A Collection of Essays

ISBN-13: 9780333037614 / Angielski / Miękka / 1968 / 514 str.

Gale M. Richard;Gale; R. Gale

Opis

In what sense does time exist? A section on classical and modern attempts at definition is followed by four groups of essays drawn largely from contemporary philosophy, each preface with an introduction by the editor.

Spis treści

Preface "WHAT, THEN, IS TIME?" Introduction Time; Aristotle Time and Eternity; Plotinus Some Questions about Time; St. Augustine Analytic-Synthetic; Friedrich Waismann THE STATIC VERSUS THE DYNAMIC TEMPORAL Introduction Time; J.M.E. McTaggart The Myth of Passage; Donald C. Williams Ostensible Temporality; C.D. Broad Time: A Treatment of Some Puzzles; J.N. Findlay Spatialising Time; J.J.C. Smart THE OPEN FUTURE Introduction On Interpretation; Aristotle Truth and Necessity in Temporal Perspective; Nicholas Rescher Fatalism; Richard Taylor Must the Future Be What It Is Going To Be?; R.D. Bradley Bringing About the Past; Michael Dummett The Open Future; Bernard Mayo HUMAN TIME Introduction Our Direct Experience of Time; J.D. Mabbott The Status of Temporal Becoming; Adolf Gr�nbaum The Flow of Time; William Barrett An American Indian Model of the Universe; Benjamin L. Whorf ZENO'S PARADOXES OF MOTION Introduction Form and Becoming; Henri Bergson Tasks and Super-tasks; J.F. Thomson Modern Science and Zeno's Paradoxes of Motion; Adolf Gr�nbaum Bibliography

O autorze

RICHARD GALE was born in New York City in 1932. He received his Ph.D. from New York University in 1961; after teaching for three years at Vassar College, he joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh, where he is now Associate Professor of Philosophy. His philosophical papers have appeared in Mind, Philosophical Review, and other professional journals.