TimeTime brings together philosophical and literary works representing the many ways--metaphysical, scientific, analytic, phenomenological, literary--in which philosophers and others have reflected on questions about time. |
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Contents
St Augustine Time Tends Not to Be from | 6 |
Ludwig Wittgenstein St Augustines Puzzle about | 29 |
G W Leibniz Time Is a Relation from The Leibniz | 44 |
Aristotle Time from the Physics | 60 |
Plotinus Time and Eternity from the Enneads | 73 |
J Ellis McTaggart The Unreality of Time from Mind | 94 |
Michael Dummett A Defense of McTaggarts Proof | 112 |
Journal of Philosophy | 131 |
W V O Quine Time from Word and Object | 148 |
Maurice MerleauPonty Temporality from | 177 |
James F Sheridan First Experience of Time | 191 |
Thomas Mann Excursus on the Sense of Time | 217 |
Index 225 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Time Hackett readings in philosophy Readings in philosophy |
| Editors | Jonathan Westphal, Carl Avren Levenson |
| Publisher | Hackett Publishing, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0872202062, 9780872202061 |
| Length | 225 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / Metaphysics |
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