How can we talk meaningfully about the past if it does not exist to be talked about? What gives time its direction? Is time travel possible? This defence of presentism - the view that only the present exists - makes an original contribution to a fast growing and exciting debate.

Presentism, the view that only the present exists, was a much neglected position in the philosophy of time for a number of years. Recently, however, it has been enjoying a renaissance among philosophers. A Future for Presentism is meant as a timely contribution to this fast growing and exciting debate.

What can we learn about the world from engaging with fictional time-series? What should we make of stories involving time travellers who change the past, recurrence of a single day, foreknowledge of the future, the freezing or rewinding of time, or time-series which split into alternative courses of events? Do they show us radical alternative possibilities concerning the nature of time, or do they show that even the impossible can be represented in fiction? Neither, so this book argues. Defending the view that a fiction represents a single possible world, the authors show how apparent...

Follow the adventures of Tails, a very clever Jack Russell Terrier. Tails, his young owner, Buck, and a British Kennel Club representative, all travel to America for a dog show tour. Once here, Tails narrowly escapes a dog-napper, only to find himself lost in a big city. Another young boy, Tommy, comes to his rescue and, while he tries to find Tails' owner, he just can't resist falling in love with the spunky little dog - setting the two off on new adventures. It won't take long for you to fall in love with Tails, too, as you read about his adventures and discover how it all works out in the...