Other Times: Philosophical Perspectives on Past, Present and Future (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Cockburn, David
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Date:	02/15/2007
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Current approaches to the question of our position in time--such as those seen in disputes between tensed and tenseless theories, and between realist and anti-realist treatments of past and future--misconstrue the relation between metaphysics and ethics, and the way to characterize the kind of sense which tensed language has. In this original and thought-provoking study, David Cockburn argues that the notion of reasons for emotion must have a central place in any account of meaning, and that the present should have no priority in our understanding of tense.