The Reality of Time

<p>Preface<br/> <br/>I. Introduction: The Nature and Vindication<br/> <blockquote> <br/>Prevalent Repudiation of Metaphysics<br/> What is Metaphysics?<br/> The Restoration of Metaphysics<br/> </blockquote> <br/>II. Metaphysical Problems of Time<br/> <blockquote> <br/>Passage Movement and Measurement<br/> How Do We Identify the Present?<br/> Change Permanence and the Transcendence of Passage<br/> Spinoza Provides a Clue<br/> </blockquote> <br/>III. Physical Time<br/> <blockquote> <br/>Attempts to Eliminate Passage from Physical Time<br/> Process Order and Chaos<br/> The Paradoxes of Zeno<br/> Cosmic Time<br/> Time Reversal<br/> Cosmic History and Cosmic Unity<br/> </blockquote> <br/>IV. Biological Time<br/> <blockquote> <br/>Organism and Duree<br/> The Emergence of Life<br/> Evolution<br/> Environment and Biological Clocks<br/> Behavior<br/> Biocoenoses<br/> Conclusion<br/> </blockquote> <br/>V. Psychological Time<br/> <blockquote> <br/>The Stream of Consciousness<br/> The Specious Present<br/> Time and the Transcendental Subject<br/> The Problem of the Transcendental Ego<br/> Soultion to the Problem<br/> </blockquote> <br/>VI. Historical Time<br/> <blockquote> <br/><i>Res Gestae</i><br/> The Idea of the Historical Past<br/> The Historical Process<br/> Structuralism and Deconstructionism<br/> </blockquote> <br/>VII. Dialectic in History<br/> <blockquote> <br/>Historical Thinking<br/> Transformation of Conceptual Schemes<br/> The Dialectical Scale<br/> Historical Objectivity<br/> The Historical Universal<br/> </blockquote> <br/>VIII. Evolution and Omega<br/> <blockquote> <br/>Evolution Diachronic and Synchronic<br/> The Features of Wholeness<br/> Differentiation and Process<br/> The Clue to Omega<br/> Omega and Time<br/> Omega and Deity<br/> Mysticism<br/> </blockquote> <br/>Notes<br/> <br/>Select Bibliography<br/> <br/>Index</p>