Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

`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