These nine essays, commissioned on the initiative of the Philosophy section of the British Academy, address fundamental questions about time in philosophy, physics, linguistics, and psychology. Are t
Tzamalikos (philosophy, Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki, Greece) has written widely on Origen (c. 185-254) and time, and over the course of a quarter-century of study has concluded that the radical theol
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. In the first book
A British scholar of philosophy explains how Gilles Deleuze challenged Kant's unity of apperception and the phenomenological account of time, and offers an account of his theory of the pure Event usin
Manchester (philosophy, Stone Brook U.) reprints three essays from 1984, presents a new one, and revises a 1979 essay that turned out to be based on an error. They begin by showing how fourth-century
Recently the distinguished feminist theorist Elizabeth Grosz has turned her critical acumen toward rethinking time and duration. Time Travels brings her trailblazing essays together to show how recon
A metaphysics professor offers a profound but accessible look at some of the most baffling puzzles of the universe, including time travel, parallel worlds, the edge of the universe, the mysteries of t
The question of the existence and the properties of time has been subject to debate for thousands of years. This considered and complete study offers a contrastive analysis of phenomenologies of time
Time travel is not just science fiction; it may actually be possible. Wolf draws on yoga and quantum physics to show that time is a flexible projection of mind. Cheating time, he says, is an ancient
Here Oaklander (philosophy, U. of Michigan-Flint) continues his defense of the B-theory of time, which exists without the tenses of past, present and future, reckoning instead on "earlier/later than"
Considering the topic of time in antiquity, juxtaposing cultures and societies, yields remarkable intersections, continuities, and discontinuities in the ways people have engaged with temporality.One
The 11th Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time, held in July 2001 at the Castello di Gargonza, Italy, attracted participants from the humanities and the social and na
The summa of a distinguished philosopher's career, and full treatment of the temporal in philosophical terms, this volume shows us that by taking time seriously we can discover something essential to
Selected papers from the seventh International Medieval Congress, U. of Leeds, July 2000, by academics in a variety of disciplines in the sciences and humanities. Papers in seven broad themes shed lig
Plato, Lucretius, Augustine, Descartes, Liebniz, Edwin A. Abbott, Bertrand Russell, Richard Taylor, and Isaac Asimov are among those whose views on cosmology are collected. The 21 essays and excerpts
Introduces sophisticated concepts of time from physics to students of religion, and discusses these concepts in relation to the notions of time in Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Judeo-Christian and Islamic
Modern philosophical thought has a manifold tradition of emphasizing "the moment". "The moment" demands questioning all-too-common notions of time, of past, present and future, uniqueness and repetiti
One of the articles of faith of twentieth-century intellectual history is that the theory of relativity in physics sprang in its essentials from the unaided genius of Albert Einstein; another is that
