A Companion to the Philosophy of Time

Notes on Contributors xi
 
Acknowledgments xvii
 
Introduction 1
Heather Dyke and Adrian Bardon
 
Part I The History of the Philosophy of Time 7
 
1 Heraclitus and Parmenides 9
Ronald C. Hoy
 
2 Zeno's Paradoxes 30
Niko Strobach
 
3 Aristotle on Time and Change 47
Andrea Falcon
 
4 Determinism, Fatalism, and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy 59
Ricardo Salles
 
5 Creation and Eternity in Medieval Philosophy 73
Jon McGinnis
 
6 Newton's Philosophy of Time 87
Eric Schliesser
 
7 Classical Empiricism 102
Lorne Falkenstein
 
8 Kant and Time-Order Idealism 120
Andrew Brook
 
9 Husserl and the Phenomenology of Temporality 135
Shaun Gallagher
 
10 The Emergence of a New Family of Theories of Time 151
John Bigelow
 
11 The B-Theory in the Twentieth Century 167
M. Joshua Mozersky
 
Part II Time as a Feature of the Physical World 183
 
12 Time in Classical and Relativistic Physics 185
Gordon Belot
 
13 Time in Cosmology 201
Chris Smeenk
 
14 On Time in Quantum Physics 220
Jeremy Butterfield
 
15 Time in Quantum Gravity 242
Nick Huggett, Tiziana Vistarini, and Christian Wüthrich
 
16 The Arrow of Time in Physics 262
David Wallace
 
17 Time and Causation 282
Mathias Frisch
 
18 Time Travel and Time Machines 301
Douglas Kutach
 
19 The Passage of Time 315
Simon Prosser
 
20 Time and Tense 328
Heather Dyke
 
21 Presentism, Eternalism, and the Growing Block 345
Kristie Miller
 
22 Change and Identity over Time 365
Dana Lynne Goswick
 
Part III Time as a Feature of Human Experience 387
 
23 The Perception of Time 389
Barry Dainton
 
24 Transcendental Arguments and Temporal Experience 410
Georges Dicker
 
25 Memory 432
Jordi Fernández
 
26 Time in Mind 444
Julian Kiverstein and Valtteri Arstila
 
27 The Representation of Time in Agency

Heather Dyke is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She has published many articles on the philosophy of time, and is the author of Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy (2008), and editor of Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection (2003) and From Truth to Reality: New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics (2009).
 
Adrian Bardon is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is the editor of The Future of the Philosophy of Time (2012) and author of A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time (2013).

"This is an indispensable collection of articles on the philosophy of time. Its contributors illuminate every major aspect of it and its history. I can think of no better guide to the subject." (Philosophy, Religion and Science Book Reviews, 5 April 2014)
 
"Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty." (Choice, 1 November 2013)