• ISBN13: 9780521592147
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Religion and Philosophy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: November 13, 1997
• Pages: 370
• Original Price: USD 135.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 540 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Metaphysics

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 place in any account of meaning, and that the present should have no priority in our understanding of tense.