Introduction; Part I: Causation, Time, and Ontology; Part II: Semantical Issues; Part III: Tensed Facts; Part IV: Temporal Relations; Part V: Objections; Part VI: A Summing-up; Bibliography; Index.
Michael Tooley is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He held positions previously at the Australian National University, the University of Western Australia, and the University of Miami; and he has been a visiting professor at Stanford, Wichita State, and Utah.
`Good arguments abound. But it seems to me that the greatest virtue
of the book is the admirable originality, creativity, and
philosophical fecundity that Tooley displays. In this book, as in
Tooley's previous works, he displays his usual independence of mind
and philosophical courage. He takes on the presuppositions of the
entire tradition of the tensed versus tenseless theory of time
debate (rejecting both standard positions) and also takes on
many
other "received views," and the result is the most novel book on
the tensed and tenseless theories of time that has been published
in recent memory.'
Philosophical Review
`I cannot but admire this book very deeply. Tooley has tackled one
sacred cow after another in the debate over tense, and argued every
point with exemplary clarity and explicitness. The result is a
brilliant, original and provocative essay that changes the
metaphysical landscape in this area. It provides fresh impetus to
an issue which, thought its roots go back further, is as long as
this century. Time, Tense, and Causation will be read and discussed
well
into the next.'
Robin Le Poidevin, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
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