McTaggart's Paradox [Paperback]

Preface

1. Introduction

2. The Metaphysics

3. The Argument

4. The C Series

5. The Defences

6. The Objections

7. The B View and the Problem of Change

8. The A View and the Problem of Tense

9. The Conclusion

McTaggarts argument for the unreality of time, first published in 1908, set the agenda for 20th-century philosophy of time. Yet there is very little agreement on what it actually saysnobody agrees with the conclusion, but still everybody finds something important in it. This book presents the first critical overview of the last century of debate on what is popularly called McTaggarts Paradox . Scholars have long assumed that McTaggarts argument stands alone and does not rely on any contentious ontological principles. The author demonstrates that these assumptions are