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Books

The Mystery of Time

Keith Seddon reviews The Philosophy of Time, edited by Robin Le Poidevin and Murray MacBeath.

This welcome addition to the Oxford Readings in Philosophy series is a competently compiled selection of essays which will give the reader a solid introduction to the major questions grouped under the heading ‘philosophy of time’. It contains two original essays (by Forbes and MacBeath) especially prepared for this volume, and one essay especially revised (by Mellor). The Introduction skillfully takes the reader through all the main issues. The Annotated Bibliography points the enthusiast to a wealth of contemporary work, emphasising work published since 1980.

McTaggart with a chapter from his 1927 book The Nature of Existence, called ‘The Unreality of Time’, starts the whole thing off, coining the phrases ‘A series’ and ‘B series’.

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