Table of Contents

Robin Le Poidevin: Introduction
1: Robin Le Poidevin: The Past, Present, and Future of the Debate about Tense
2: E. J. Lowe: Tense and Persistence
3: Jeremy Butterfield: Seeing the Present
4: David Cockburn: Tense and Emotion
5: Heather Dyke: Real Times and Possible Worlds
6: Graham Nerlich: Time as Spacetime
7: Quentin Smith: Absolute Simultaneity and the Infinity of Time
8: L. Nathan Oaklander: Freedom and the New Theory of Time
9: Piers Benn: Morality, the Unborn, and the Open Future
10: William Lane Craig: The Tensed vs. Tenseless Theory of Time: A Watershed for the Conception of Divine Eternity
11: Paul Helm: Time and Trinity
12: Gregory Currie: Tense and Egocentricity in Fiction
Notes on the Contributors
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Robin Le Poidevin is Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Leeds. he is the author of Change, Cause, and Contradiction (1991) and Arguing for Atheism (1996), and co-editor of the volume on The Philosophy of Time in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy series (1993).

Reviews

`Review from previous edition a remarkable collection of essays on the contemporary metaphysical debate concerning the status of our commonsense understanding of time as divided into past, present and future ... a well-produced volume'
L B McHenry Choice