Time for Aristotle : Physics IV.10-14

by: Coope, U.

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Time for Aristotle
Physics IV. 10-14
Ursula Coope
Clarendon Press

Oxford Aristotle Studies Series
A fresh interpretation of Aristotle's account of time
Explains why Aristotle thinks that time depends on the soul
The first book in English devoted to time in the Physics
The first book by a rising star of ancient philosophy
Of great interest to contemporary philosophers of time

Description
What is the relation between time and change? Does time depend on the mind? Is the present always the same or is it always different? Aristotle tackles these questions in the Physics, and Time for Aristotle is the first book in English devoted to this discussion.

Aristotle claims that time is not a kind of change, but that it is something dependent on change; he defines it as a kind of 'number of change'. Ursula Coope argues that what this means is that time is a kind of order (not, as is commonly supposed, a kind of measure). It is universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation enables Coope to explain two puzzling claims that Aristotle makes: that the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind. Brilliantly lucid in its explanation of this challenging section of the Physics, Time for Aristotle shows his discussion to be of enduring philosophical interest.

Table of Contents
Introduction
I. Introductory puzzles and the starting points of inquiry
1:The introductory puzzles
2:Time is not change but something of change
II. Time's dependence on change
3:Time follows change and change follows magnitude
4:The before and after
III. Time as a number and time as a measure
5:The definition of time as a kind of number
6:Time as a measure of change
IV. The sameness and difference of times and nows
7:All simultaneous time is the same
8:The sameness of earlier and later times and nows
V. Two consequences of Aristotle's account of time
9:Being in time
10:Time and the soul
Appendix: the expression ho pote on X esti
Bibliography
Index

Time for Aristotle : Physics IV.10-14

by: Coope, U.

• ISBN-13: 9780199247905 / 978-0-19-924790-5
• ISBN-03: 0199247900 / 0-19-924790-0
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005

Price: 58,00 EURO

1 copy in stock