Subject: Philosophy Book Title: Time for Aristotle
Time for Aristotle
Physics IV. 10-14
Coope, Ursula
, Birkbeck College, University of London
Print publication date: 2005
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2006
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924790-5
doi:10.1093/0199247900.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2006
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924790-5
doi:10.1093/0199247900.001.0001
Abstract:
This book is about Aristotle’s account of time in Physics IV.10-14. 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’ with respect to the before and after. It is argued that this means that time is a kind of order (not, as is commonly supposed, that it is a kind of measure). It is a universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation is used 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 soul.
Keywords: change, number, measure, soul, before and after
Keywords: change, number, measure, soul, before and after
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. The Introductory Puzzles
2. Time is Not Change but Something of Change
3. Time Follows Change and Change Follows Magnitude
4. The Before and After
5. The Definition of Time as a Kind of Number
6. Time as a Measure of Change
7. All Simultaneous Time is the Same
8. The Sameness of Earlier and Later Times and Nows
9. Being in Time
10. Time and the Soul
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
doi:10.1093/0199247900.001.0001
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