Part 1: Time by Itself 1. The nature of time 2. Time and consciousness 3. Instants and intervals 4. The ever-shrinking present 5. Concepts and experience 6. Denseness and continuity 7. The topology of time 8. The direction of time 9. Cyclic time 10. The measurement of time 11. Calendars and clocks 12. The rational theory of clocks 13. Timelessness, permanence and omnitemporality 14 Facts and fiats 15. The tenuousness of time Part 2: The Argument from Time to Space 16. Space 17. Outline of the argument from time to space 18. Time, change and communication 19. Things 20. The argument from the possibility of communication to things 21. The argument from change to things 22. The argument from things and change to different sorts of qualities 23. Qualitative identity and numerical distinctness 24. Types and tokens 25. The Identity of Indiscernibles 26. Parameter space 27. Wireless metaphysics 28. Impenetrability 29. Dimensions and continuity Part 3: The Theology of Space 30. Newtonian space 31. Equivalence relations and groups 32. Digression into geometry 33. Interpretations 34. The measurement of space 35. Τὸ ἄπειρον 36. Reflections and rotations 37. The Euclidean group 38. Shapes and sizes 39. Pythagoreanism 40. Theodicy Part 4: Space and Time Together 41. The plenum 42. Newtonian mechanics and relativity 43. The Lorentz group of transformations 44. The transcendental derivation of the Lorentz transformations 45. A priori arguments and empirical truths 46. The dilatation of time 47 The Special and General Theories of Relativity 48. Athanasius intra mundum Part 5: Return to Time 49. Time reversibility in classical physics 50. Time and probability 51. Time and modality 52. Tenses 53. Dates and tenses 54. Future contingents and fatalism 55. Eternity 56. Alpha and omega
Biography
J. R. Lucas
