Concept of Time [Hardcover]

The Concept of Time deals with tense and tenselessness; periods and instants; the measurement of time; time, change and causation. The author attempts to show how considerations in the philosophy of logic and language are needed to settle many of the issues here. For example, the debate about tenselessness turns out to hinge largely on whether a genuinely tense-free language is conceivable; and the possibility of time without change is grounded in what makes duration-statements have the sense they do.Introduction - PART 1: TENSE AND TENSELESSNESS - Preamble - McTaggart's Argument - Facts, Knowledge and Belief - Truth-Conditions - Conclusion - PART 2: HOW LONG THINGS LAST AND WHEN THEY HAPPEN - Dates and Units - Periods and Instants - PART 3: TIME, CHANGE AND CAUSATION - Time and Change - The Direction of Time - Appendix: The Notion of a Criterion: Wright's Objections - IndexROGER TEICHMANN