Time and mind : the history of a philosophical problem / by J.J.A. Mooij ; translated from the Dutch by Peter Mason.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mooij, J. J. A. (Jan Johann Albinn)

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 129.

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 129

Standardized Title:

Tijd en geest. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--History.

Time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book deals with the history of a central problem in the philosophy of time: Can time exist without mind or consciousness, and if not, in what respects? Aristotle was the first to formulate this problem, and it has been intensively discussed ever since. This book analyses the answers and arguments and sets them in their historical context. Although there have been very different approaches, the book shows important continuities as well. Besides being a specialist monograph, it can be used in courses on the philosophy of time in general, or on the realism/idealism debate.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Chapter One: Introduction: How old is time?

Chapter Two: How it started: From Pherecydes to Plato

Chapter Three: Aristotle: Measurable duration and instant

Chapter Four: Atomists, holists, moralists: the Epicureans and the Stoics

Chapter Five: The two times of Neoplatonism

Chapter Six: Saint Augustine: two times and two creations

Chapter Seven: Retrospect and progress

Chapter Eight: Utrum tempus possit esse sine anima: Debates around 1300

Chapter Nine: Intermezzo: The arrival of the clock

Chapter Ten: From Renaissance to Baroque

Chapter Eleven: Duration and absolute time: Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Newton

Chapter Twelve: The century of Leibniz, Berkeley and Kant

Chapter Thirteen: Idealists versus realists

Chapter Fourteen: In search of authentic time: Bergson and the phenomenologists

Chapter Fifteen: The view from physics: the empiricists

Chapter Sixteen: Toward the present

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-282) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-86729-9

9786610867295

1-4294-2923-2

90-474-0657-5

1-4337-0657-1

OCLC:

476024714

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047406570 DOI