Introduction
Part I: History of Philosophy of Time
1. Time in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy — Daniel Vázquez
2. Nāgārjuna on Time — Jay L. Garfield
3. Time, Creation, and Eschatology in Augustine’s Confessions — Sean Hannan
4. Time and Modality? Avicenna’s Account Vis-A-Vis the Eternity of the World — Andreas Lammer
5. Dōgen’s Philosophy of Time — Takeshi Sakon and Shinya Moriyama
6. Newton and Leibniz on Time – Geoffrey Gorham
7. Émilie Du Châtelet on Time — Ruth Edith Hagengruber
8. Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy of Time — Paul Guyer
9. Spatializing Time: How the Long Nineteenth Century Turned Time into a Line — Emily Thomas
10. Husserl and Phenomenology of Time — Michael Robert Kelly
11. McTaggart and Oakeley on the Reality of Time — Matyáš Moravec
12. Bergson’s Durée, Whitehead’s Process, and Einstein’s Relativity — Gregory Landini
13. Prior on Time, Tense, and Logic — Peter Øhrstrøm
Part II: Contemporary Metaphysics of Time
14. Relationalism, Substantivalism, and Supersubstantivalism — Zee Perry
15. Persistence — Antony Eagle
16. Change, Time, and Contradiction: Some Scenes from the History of a Problem — Graham Priest
17. Time and Tense: Metaphysics, Language, Cognition — Heather Dyke
18. The Passage of Time — Giuliano Torrengo
19. Presentism and Eternalism — Dave Ingram
20. The Growing Block Theory of Time — Fabrice Correia and Sven Rosenkranz
21. Deflationism and Anti-Metaphysicalism about Temporal Ontology — Mark Balaguer
22. The Moving Spotlight — Ross Cameron and Daniel Deasy
23. The Direction of Time — Alison Fernandes
24. Is the Future Open? — Graeme A. Forbes
25. Time and Modality - Samuele Iaquinto
26. Time Travel — Nikk Effingham
27. Time and Causation — Jonathan Tallant and Donatella Donati
28. God, Time, and Freedom— Natalja Deng
Part III: Time and Physics
29. Time in Classical Physics — Matt Farr
30. Time and Special Relativity — Heather Demarest
31. Time and General Relativity — Kian Salimkhani
32. The Thermodynamics Arrow and the Arrow of Time — Orly Shenker and Meir Hemmo
33. Time and Quantum Mechanics — Valia Allori
34. Time and Quantum Gravity — Christian Wuthrich
35. Time and Cosmology — Silvia De Bianchi
Part IV: Time and Mind
36. Time Concepts and Development — Teresa McCormack
37. Temporal Experience and Cognitive Science — Kristie Miller
38. The Folk Concept of Time — Jack Shardlow and Ruth Lee
39. Time Biases — Meghan Sullivan
40. Memory and Prospection — Christoph Hoerl
41. Time in Philosophy of Action — Roman Altshuler
42. Mindfulness, Meditation, and Time — Akiko Frischhut
Part V: Further Connections
43. Temporal Logic — Ulrich Meyer
44. Feminist Philosophy of Time — Steph Rennick
45. Neither Timeless Nor Linear: Circular, Cyclical, and Relational Time for Indigenous Futures — Brian Burkhart
46. Zen’s Approach to Philosophy of Time — Shigenori Nagatomo
47. Time and Well-Being — Eden Lin
48. Temporal Discounting and Climate Change — Paul Kelleher
49. Time in Fiction — Hannah Kim
50. Ethical Puzzles of Time Travel — Sara Bernstein
Biography
Nina Emery is Professor of Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College and Affiliated Graduate Faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the author of Naturalism Beyond the Limits of Science (2023), the past President of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science, and the current President of the Philosophy of Time Society.
