Questions of Time and Tense [Paperback]

This book brings together new essays on a major focus of debate in contemporary metaphysics: does time really pass, or is our ordinary experience of time as consisting of past, present, and future an illusion? The international contributors broaden this debate by demonstrating the importance of questions about the nature of time for philosophical issues in ethics, aesthetics, psychology, science, religion, and language.

Introduction,Robin Le Poidevin
1. The Past, Present, and Future of the Debate about Tense,Robin Le Poidevin
2. Tense and Persistence,E. J. Lowe
3. Seeing the Present,Jeremy Butterfield
4. Tense and Emotion,David Cockburn
5. Real Times and Possible Worlds,Heather Dyke
6. Time as Spacetime,Graham Nerlich
7. Absolute Simultaneity and the Infinity of Time,Quentin Smith
8. Freedom and the New Theory of Time,L. Nathan Oaklander
9. Morality, the Unborn, and the Open Future,Piers Benn
10. The Tensed vs. Tenseless Theory of Time: A Watershed for the Conception of Divine Eternity,William Lane Craig
11. Time and Trinity,Paul Helm
Tense and Egocentricity in Fiction,Gregory Currie
Notes on the Contributors
Bibliography
Index

Le Poidevin has edited a remarkable collection of essays....[a] well-produced volume....Most appropriate for upper-division undergraduates and beyond. --Choice