The problem of time in metaphysics and physics
The problem of time in metaphysics · The problem of time in physics · Can modern physics do without metaphysics? · Plato on reason and myth

Time and change in antiquity and scholasticism
Time’s might in early Greek literature · Eternal flux and the war of opposites · Time and instant in Plato’s Parmenides · The creation of time in Plato’s Timaeus · Aristotle on time, movement, and the ‘now’ · Zeno’s arrow · The reality of time questioned · Free will and determinism · Plotinus and Augustine on the time of the soul · Time and theology · The schoolmen on the nature of change

Views on time in the era of classical physics
Relativity and absolutism · Time as the order of succession · Time and transcendental idealism · Time and dimensionality · No escape from the present · Time and infinity · Eternal recurrence · Time and mathematics · The unreality of time · The awareness of time

Duration and process: Henri Bergson and A.N. Whitehead
Intuition and duration · Consciousness and the world · True time · Divisions of experience · The meaning of ‘all things flow’ · Atomicity and continuity ·

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