Time for Aristotle

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. In the first book in English exclusively devoted to this discussion, Ursula Coope argues that Aristotle sees time as a universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation enables her to explain two striking Aristotelian claims: that the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind.

Ursula Coope is Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Introduction
Introductory puzzles and the starting points of inquiry
The introductory puzzles
Time is not change but something of change
Time's dependence on change
Time follows change and change follows magnitude
The before and after
Time as a number and time as a measure
The definition of time as a kind of number
Time as a measure of change
The sameness and difference of times and nows
All simultaneous time is the same
The sameness of earlier and later times and nows
Two consequences of Aristotle's account of time
Being in time
Time and the soul
Appendix: the expression ho pote on X esti
Bibliography
Index
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