TY  - BOOK
AU  - Teichmann,Roger
TI  - The concept of time
SN  - 0312127030
AV  - BD638 .T44 1995
U1  - ARCH YNDC 115 T262C 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Press, Scholarly and Reference Division
KW  - Time
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-194) and index; 1. McTaggart's Argument -- 2. Facts, Knowledge and Belief -- 3. Truth-Conditions -- 4. Dates and Units -- 5. Periods and Instants -- 6. Time and Change -- 7. The Direction of Time -- Appendix: The Notion of a Criterion: Wright's Objections
N2  - Are past, present and future objective features of reality? What is an instant of time? Could time pass if nothing changed? In this book, the author attempts to show how considerations in the philosophy of logic and language are needed to settle these and other well-known issues. Part I deals with the debate over whether time is 'tensed' or 'tenseless'. Various problems are spelt out for the 'tenseless' view, and it is argued that the issue ends up hinging upon whether a genuinely tenseless language is conceivable. Part II has to do with periods and instants. The semantics of dates and of duration-terms are examined, and the notion of a durationless instant attacked. In Part III, the connections between time, change and causation are discussed. A criterial approach to the meanings of certain key temporal terms is adopted, yielding answers to a number of traditional metaphysical issues about time
ER  -