Questions of time and tense /

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Imprint:Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Description:xii, 293 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3731572
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Other authors / contributors:Le Poidevin, Robin, 1962-
ISBN:0198236956 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-290) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Past, Present, and Future of the Debate about Tense
  • 2. Tense and Persistence
  • 3. Seeing the Present
  • 4. Tense and Emotion
  • 5. Real Times and Possible Worlds
  • 6. Time as Spacetime
  • 7. Absolute Simultaneity and the Infinity of Time
  • 8. Freedom and the New Theory of Time
  • 9. Morality, the Unborn, and the Open Future
  • 10. The Tensed vs. Tenseless Theory of Time: A Watershed for the Conception of Divine Eternity
  • 11. Time and Trinity
  • 12. Tense and Egocentricity in Fiction
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Bibliography
  • Index