Contents
List of Contributors ii
Preface xi
General Introduction: The Implications of the Tensed and Tenseless Theories of Time 1
QUENTIN SMITH
PART I: Time and Tensed Sentences
Introduction: The Old and New Tenseless Theories of Time 17
QUENTIN SMITH
1 The Need for Tense 23
D. H. MELLOR
2 Problems with the New Tenseless Theory of Time 38
QUENTIN SMITH
3 A Defense of the New Tenseless Theory of Time 57
L. NATHAN OAKLANDER
4 The Truth Conditions of Tensed Sentences 69
QUENTIN SMITH
5 The New Tenseless Theory of Time: A Reply to Smith 77
L. NATHAN OAKLANDER
6 Smart and Mellor’s New Tenseless Theory of Time: A Reply to Oakland 83
QUENTIN SMITH
7 Temporal Indexicals and the Passage of Time 87
MICHELLE BEER
8 The Co-reporting Theory of Tensed and Tenseless Sentences 94
QUENTIN SMITH
9 The Date Analysis of Tensed Sentences 104
CLIFFORD WILLIAMS
10 Williams’s Defense of the New Tenseless Theory of Time 111
QUENTIN SMITH
11 Demonstratives 115
DAVID KAPLAN
12 Temporal Indexicals 136
QUENTIN SMITH
PART I I: McTaggart’s Paradox and the Passage of Time
Introduction: McTaggart’s Paradox and the Tensed Theory of Time 157
L. NATHAN OAKLANDER
13 The Unreality of Tense 163
D. H. MELLOR
14 Mellor and McTaggart’s Paradox 176
QUENTIN SMITH
15 The Infinite Regress of Temporal Attributions 186
QUENTIN SMITH
16 McTaqgart’s Paradox and the Infinite Regress of Temporal Attributions: A Reply to Smith 195
L. NATHAN OAKLANDER
17 The Logical Structure of the Debate about McTaggart’s Paradox 202
QUENTIN SMITH
18 McTaggart’s Paradox Revisited 211
L. NATHAN OAKLANDER
19 Temporal Becoming 214
GEORGE SCHLESINGER
20 McTaqgart, Schlesinger, and the Two-Dimensional Time Hypothesis 221
L. NATHAN OAKLANDER
21 How to Naviqate the River of Time 229
GEORGE SCHLESINGER
22 A Reply to Schlesinger 232
L. NATHAN OAKLANDER
23 Temporal Becoming Minus the Moving Now 234
DAVID ZEILICOVICI
24 Zeilicovici on Temporal Becoming 252
L. NATHAN OAKLANDER
25 The Stream of Time 257
GEORGE SCHLESINGER
PART III: Time and Experience
Introduction: The Problem of Our Experience of Time 289
L. NATHAN OAKLANDER
26 “Thank Goodness That’s Over” 293
D. H. MELLOR
27 Mel/or’s Emeritus Headache 305
MURRAY MACBEATH
28 MacBeath’s Soluble Aspirin 312
D. H. MELLOR
29 “Thank Goodness That’s Over” Revisited 316
BRIAN J. GARRETT
30 Not Over Yet: Prior’s “Thank Goodness” Argument 322
DELMAS KIERNAN-LEWIS
31 Thank Goodness It’s Over 325
L. NATHAN OAKLANDER
32 Passage and the Presence of Experience 328
H. SCOTT HESTEVOLD
33 On the Experience of Tenseless Time 344
L. NATHAN OAKLANDER
34 The Phenomenology of A-Time 351
QUENTIN SMITH
35 The Phenomenology of B-Time 360
CLIFFORD WILLIAMS
Acknowledgments 373
Name Index 377