The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emery, Nina.

Series:

Routledge Philosophy Companions Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (847 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

Is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to a growing subfield of philosophical research, which spans traditional and contemporary debates about the nature of time, as well as a diverse set of historical, geographical, and cultural contexts.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: History of Philosophy of Time

1. Time in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

2. Nāgārjuna on Time

3. Time, Creation, and Eschatology in Augustine's Confessions

4. Time and Modality?: Avicenna's Account Vis-À-Vis the Eternity of the World

5. Dōgen's Philosophy of Time

6. Newton and Leibniz on Time

7. Émilie du Châtelet on Time

8. Kant's Transcendental Philosophy of Time

9. Spatializing Time: How the Long Nineteenth Century Turned Time into a Line

10. Husserl and Phenomenology of Time

11. McTaggart and Oakeley on the Reality of Time

12. Bergson's Durée, Whitehead's Process, and Einstein's Relativity

13. Prior on Time, Tense, and Logic

PART II: Contemporary Metaphysics of Time

14. Relationalism, Substantivalism, and Supersubstantivalism

15. Persistence

16. Change, Time, and Contradiction: Some Scenes from the History of a Problem

17. Time and Tense: Metaphysics, Language, Cognition

18. The Passage of Time

19. Presentism and Eternalism

20. The Growing Block Theory of Time

21. Deflationism and Anti-Metaphysicalism about Temporal Ontology

22. The Moving Spotlight

23. The Direction of Time

24. Is the Future Open?

25. Time and Modality

26. Time Travel

27. Time and Causation

28. God, Time, and Freedom

PART III: Time and Physics

29. Time in Classical Physics

30. Time and Special Relativity

31. Time and General Relativity

32. The Thermodynamic Arrow and the Arrow of Time

33. Time and Quantum Mechanics

34. Time and Quantum Gravity

35. Time and Cosmology

PART IV: Time and Mind

36. Time Concepts and Development

37. Temporal Experience and Cognitive Science

38. The Folk Concept of Time.

39. Time Biases

40. Memory and Prospection

41. Time in Philosophy of Action

42. Mindfulness, Meditation, and Time

PART V: Further Connections

43. Temporal Logic

44. Feminist Philosophy of Time

45. Neither Timeless Nor Linear: Circular, Cyclical, and Relational Time for Indigenous Futures

46. Zen's Approach to Philosophy of Time

47. Time and Well-Being

48. Temporal Discounting and Climate Change

49. Time in Fiction

50. Ethical Puzzles of Time Travel

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-040946-6

1-003-49561-3

1-04-040944-X

9781003495611

OCLC:

1535965649