Time

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Time 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.

Contents:

• Introduction

• Proust, from Remembrance of Things Past
• Augustine, from Confessions
• Wittgenstein, from The Blue Book
• Husserl, from The Phenomenology of the Internal Time-Consciousness
• Newton, from Principia
• Leibniz, from The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
• Plato, from Timaeus and Parmenides
• Aristotle, from Physics
• Plotinus, from Enneads
• McTaggart, “The Unreality of Time” from Mind
• Dummett, “A Defense of McTaggart’s Proof of the Unreality of Time” from the Philosophical Review
• Horwich, from Asymmetries in Time
• D. C. Williams, “The Myth of Passage” from The Philosophical Journal
• Quine, from Word and Object
• Bouwsma, “The Mystery of Time (Or, the Man Who Didn’t Know What Time Is)” Merleau-Ponty, from The Phenomenology of Perception
• Sheridan, “First Experience of Time”
• Eliade, from Sacred Time
• Mann, from The Magic Mountain
• Weil, from Gravity and Grace

• Suggested Further Readings