Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time

Nina Emery is Professor of Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College and Affiliated Graduate Faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the author of Naturalism Beyond the Limits of Science (2023), the past President of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science, and the current President of the Philosophy of Time Society.

• Introduction & Acknowledgements Part I: History of Philosophy of Time 1. Time in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy 2. Nagarjuna on Causation and Change 3. Time and Creation in Augustine’s Confessions 4. Time and Modality? Avicenna’s Account vis-à-vis the Eternity of the World — Andreas Lammer 5. Dōgen’s Philosophy of Time 6. Newton and Leibniz on Time 7. Time and Space in du Châtelet’s Foundations of Physics 8. Kant’s Transcendental Idealism 9. Spatializing Time 10. Husserl and the Phenomenology of Time 11. McTaggart and Oakeley on the Reality of Time 12. Early 20th Century Dynamic Theories of Time 13. Prior on Time, Tense and Logic Part II: Contemporary Metaphysics of Time 14. Relationalism, Substantivalism and Supersubstantivalism 15. Persistence 16. Time, Change, and Contradiction 17. Time and Tense 18. The Passage of Time 19. Presentism and Eternalism 20. The Growing Block 21. Deflationism and Anti-Metaphysicalism about Temporal Ontology 22. The Moving Spotlight 23. Time’s Arrow 24. Is the Future Open? 25. Time and Modality 26. Time Travel 27. Time and Causation 28. God and Time Part III: Time and Physics 29. Time and Classical Physics 30. Time and Special Relativity 31. Time and General Relativity 32. Time and Thermodynamics 33. Time in Quantum Mechanics 34. Time and Quantum Gravity 35. Time and Cosmology Part IV: Time and Mind 36. Cognitive Development and Temporal Experience 37. Temporal Experience and Cognitive Science 38. The Folk Concept of Time 39. Time Biases 40. Memory and Prospection 41. Time in Philosophy of Action 42. Time and Mindfulness Part V: Further Connections 43. Temporal Logic 44. Feminist Philosophy of Time 45. Indigenous Philosophy of Time 46. Zen’s Approach to Philosophy of Time 47. Time and Well-being 48. Temporal Discounting and Climate Change 49. Time in Fiction 50. The Ethical Implications of Time Travel.