Author : Philosophy of Time Society
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402000621
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Book Synopsis The Importance of Time by : Philosophy of Time Society
Download or read book The Importance of Time written by Philosophy of Time Society and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-10-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Importance of Time is a unique work that reveals the central role of the philosophy of time in major areas of philosophy. The first part of the book consists of symposia on two of the most important works in the philosophy of time over the past decade: Michael Tooley's Time, Tense, and Causation and D.H. Mellor's Real Time II. What characterizes these essays, and those that follow, are the interchanges between original papers, with original responses to them by commentators. The wide range of interrelated topics covered in this book is one of its most distinctive features. The book is divided into six parts: I. Book Symposia, II. Temporal Becoming, III. The Phenomenology of Time, IV. God, Time and Foreknowledge, V. Time and Physical Objects, and VI. Time and Causation, and contains 24 essays by leading philosophers in the various areas: Laurie Paul, Quentin Smith, L. Nathan Oaklander, Hugh Mellor, John Perry, William Lane Craig, Brian Leftow, Ned Markosian, Ronald C. Hoy, Michael Tooley, Storrs McCall, David Hunt, Mark Hinchliff, Robin Le Poidevin, Iain Martel and Eric M. Rubenstein.