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Now the definitive collection. (E.J. Lowe, Durham University )
E.J. Lowe, Durham University
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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This is now undoubtedly the best introductory collection of papers on the philosophy of time, from McTaggart, Priori, Mellor, Shoemaker, Dummett, Newton-Smith, Quinton, and others.
If you want to know what time is, go for it! (But don't expect to find the answer.)
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Although this reprinting is in 2009 the original publication was 1993 and the papers as is often the case go back a lot further than that. If you are new to philosophy then this may be a useful book but many of these issues have been tackled more recently and better under the title of philosophy of mind.
McTaggart is of course essential for introducing the A series and B series that diffrentiate between the natural sequence of events and the conceptualisation of them into past, present anf future. Ideas regarding the possible category error of applying concepts within time to time itself are also interesting as is the relationship between change and time. Overall though I have to say that this collection was quite disappointing for me because I have read so many better-expressed ideas in other papers and collections. Even the time travel paradoxes are not as well-handled as I would expect. In fact, it seems to me that a number of science fiction and fantasy writers have tackled these paradoxes more inventively and creatively than in this book. The last two papers did very little for me. The attempt to prove the possibility of two-dimensional time seemed particularly daft and inconclusive.
McTaggart is of course essential for introducing the A series and B series that diffrentiate between the natural sequence of events and the conceptualisation of them into past, present anf future. Ideas regarding the possible category error of applying concepts within time to time itself are also interesting as is the relationship between change and time. Overall though I have to say that this collection was quite disappointing for me because I have read so many better-expressed ideas in other papers and collections. Even the time travel paradoxes are not as well-handled as I would expect. In fact, it seems to me that a number of science fiction and fantasy writers have tackled these paradoxes more inventively and creatively than in this book. The last two papers did very little for me. The attempt to prove the possibility of two-dimensional time seemed particularly daft and inconclusive.
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39 of 41 people found the following review helpful
A fine collection.
8 Jun 2000
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This is an excellent collection of readings on the philosophy of time. The contents include twelve essays by twelve different philosophers (including the editors of the volume) -- the very first of which is taken from the famous thirty-third chapter of John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart's _The Nature of Existence_. (Originally entitled "Time," the chapter is here retitled "The Unreality of Time.")
I remarked in my review of that book that McTaggart's argument has been tried and found wanting, but one important partial exception is featured in this volume: D.H. Mellor's piece "The Unreality of Tense." Mellor does not, indeed, accept McTaggart's conclusion that time itself is "unreal," but he does take McTaggart to have provided a successful argument for a "tenseless" theory of time. (Mellor's piece is a revision of chapter 6 of his book _Real Time_ -- the first edition, I presume.)
The other essays range over a wide variety of topics, from David Lewis's "The Paradoxes of Time Travel" to Michael Dummet's "Bringing About The Past," from whether time really "passes" or not and whether the nature of time is a philosophical or an empirical question to whether time has a beginning and whether change is real. I shall not try to comment on them all.
But the selections are excellent and the collection as a whole is very thorough. In short, this a fine set of readings for anyone with time on his hands.
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