This is a study of the nature of time. In it, redeploying an argument first presented by McTaggart, the author argues that although time itself is real, tense is not. He accounts for the appearance of the reality of tense - our sense of the passage of time, and the fact that our experience occurs in the present - by showing how time is indispensable as a condition of action. Time itself is further analysed, and Dr Mellor gives answers to most of the metaphysical questions it provokes, concerning the relation of time to space, the dissection of time, and its relation to change and causation.
- ISBN13 9780521284684
- Publish Date 21 March 1985 (first published 15 October 1981)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 2 March 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Cambridge University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 216
- Language English