Time for Aristotle Physics IV. 10-14 [Paperback]

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 thePhysics, andTime for Aristotleis the first book in English devoted to this discussion.

Aristotle claims that time is not a kind of change, but that it is something dependent on change; he defines it as a kind of number of change. Ursula Coope argues that what this means is that time is a kind of order (not, as is commonly supposed, a kind of measure). It is universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation enables Coope to explain two puzzling claims that Aristotle makes: that the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind. Brilliantly lucid in its explanation of this challenging section of thePhysics, Time for Aristotleshows his discussion to be of enduring philosophical interest.

Introduction
I. Introductory puzzles and the starting points of inquiry
1. The introductory puzzles
2. Time is not change but something of change
II. Time's dependence on change
3. Time follows change and change follows magnitude
4. The before and after
III. Time as a number and time as a measure
5. The definition of time as a kind of number
6. Time as a measure of change
IV. The sameness and difference of times and nows
7. All simultaneous time is the same
8. The sameness of earlier and later times and nows
V. Two consequences of Aristotle's account of time
9. Being in time
10. Time and the soul
Appendix: the expressionho pote on X esti
Bibliography
Index

Ursula Coopeis a Tutorial Fellow in Ancient Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Oxford