Philosophy 350TM - Topics in Philosophy: 'Philosophy of Time'
Philosophy of Time
Spring
2025
01
4.00
Nina Emery
T 01:30PM-04:20PM
Mount Holyoke College
126912
Skinner Hall 202
emery@mtholyoke.edu
Does time flow? What is the difference between the future and the past? Is time travel possible? This course will survey the major topics in the philosophy of time from Augustine's Confessions and the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence to relativity theory. Along the way we will take up philosophical issues regarding the relevance of intuition, the nature of causation, determinism, and freedom, and the relationship between science and philosophy.
Prereq: 8 credits from the Philosophy department.