Other Times

by David Cockburn

Book Overview

Current approaches to the question of our position in time--such as those seen in disputes between tensed and tenseless theories, and between realist and anti-realist treatments of past and future--misconstrue the relation between metaphysics and ethics, and the way to characterize the kind of sense which tensed language has. In this original and thought-provoking study, David Cockburn argues that the notion of reasons for emotion must have a central...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521592143
• ISBN13: 9780521592147
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.9"