What is the relation between time and change? Does time depend on the mind? Is the present always the same or is it always different? Aristotle tackles these questions in the
Physics. In the first book in English exclusively devoted to this discussion, Ursula Coope argues that Aristotle sees time as a universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation enables her to explain two striking Aristotelian claims: that the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind.
Introduction
I. Introductory puzzles and the starting points of inquiry1. The introductory puzzles
2. Time is not change but something of change
II. Time's dependence on change3. Time follows change and change follows magnitude
4. The before and after
III. Time as a number and time as a measure5. The definition of time as a kind of number
6. Time as a measure of change
IV. The sameness and difference of times and nows7. All simultaneous time is the same
8. The sameness of earlier and later times and nows
V. Two consequences of Aristotle's account of time9. Being in time
10. Time and the soul
Appendix: the expression
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Index
Ursula Coope provides an exemplary model of one kind of interpretative method. --Thomas Kiefer,
Ancient Philosophy