Lexington Books
Pages: 348
Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-0-7391-4500-5 • Hardback • October 2010 • $135.00 • (£104.00)
Ernâni Magalhães is adjunct professor of philosophy at West Virginia University.
L. Nathan Oaklander is David M. French distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan-Flint.
Part 1 General Introduction
Part 2 Part One. Presentism and Temporal Becoming
Chapter 3 Introduction. Presentism and Temporal Becoming
Chapter 4 Chapter One. What is Time?
Chapter 5 Chapter Two. The Unreality of Time
Chapter 6 Chapter Three. Changes in Events and Changes in Things
Chapter 7 Chapter Four. Is Presentness a Property?
Chapter 8 Chapter Five. Presentism: A Critique
Part 9 Part Two. Defining Presentism: The Triviality Objection
Chapter 10 Introduction. Defining Presentism: The Triviality Objection
Chapter 11 Chapter Six. The Presentist's Dilemma
Chapter 12 Chapter Seven. On Presentism and Triviality
Part 13 Part Three. Overviews of Presentism
Chapter 14 Introduction. Overviews of Presentism
Chapter 15 Chapter Eight. Presentism and Properties
Chapter 16 Chapter Nine. A Theory of Presentism
Chapter 17 Chapter Ten. A Defense of Transient Presentism
Part 18 Part Four. The Case Against Presentism
Chapter 19 Section One. Presentism and Inter-Temporal Relations
Chapter 20 Introduction. Presentism and Inter-Temporal Relations
Chapter 21 Chapter Eleven. Presentism and the Non-Present
Chapter 22 Chapter Twelve. Presentism and the Problem of Cross-Time Relations
Chapter 23 Section Two. Presentism and Relativity
Chapter 24 Introduction. Presentism and Relativity
Chapter 25 Chapter Thirteen. Time and Physical Geometry
Chapter 26 Chapter Fourteen. A Defense of Presentism in a Relativistic Setting
Chapter 27 Section Three. Presentism and Truthmaking
Chapter 28 Introduction. Presentism and Truthmaking
Chapter 29 Chapter Fifteen. Presentism and Truthmaking
Chapter 30 Chapter Sixteen. Presentism and the Grounding Objection
Part 31 Part Five. Presentism and Persistance
Chapter 32 Introduction. Presentism and Persistence
Chapter 33 Chapter Seventeen. Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism
Chapter 34 Chapter Eighteen. On the Incompatibility of Enduring and Perduring Entities
Much has been written on presentism in the last two decades, but these writings are largely scattered throughout the philosophical journals. This volume collects together both classic and contemporary papers on presentism. It is organized in a dialectically satisfying way such that the reader is guided through both the motivations for adopting presentism and the objections facing it. Each section has a helpful introduction that identifies and clarifies the main issues to be tackled by the following papers, and raises helpful questions to steer the reader through them. There is a good balance between papers that defend and those that criticize presentism. Anyone interested in the philosophy of time, and presentism in particular, will find this a valuable resource.
— Heather Dyke, University of Otago