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Tallis in Wonderland

Time & Change

Take the time to allow Raymond Tallis to change your view on time and change. Or leave it unchanged.

A quick glance through back issues of Philosophy Now tells me that I have managed to resist writing about time for a full year. This seems a decent interval, so I hope you will forgive me for returning to a topic which has been my main philosophical preoccupation for the decade I have been writing Of Time and Lamentation: Reflections on Transience, which is due out next Spring. One of its many concerns has been the puzzling relationship between time and change.

It seems that change and time are inseparable: changes take time; are located and ordered in time; and they are separated by time. The inseparability of time and change is a kind of logical truth.

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