Time Space and Metaphysics

Time Space and Metaphysics engages with major philosophical questions concerning time and space a framework for the investigation being provided by the debate between the absolutists and the relationists so between Newton and Leibniz and their followers. The investigation brings to the fore questions of the nature and reality of time and space and leads on to more recent debates such as those relating to anti-realism time travel temporal parts geometry convention and the infinitude of time and space. These in turn raise more general issues issues involving such concepts as those of identity objectivity causation facts and verifiability. Their examination falls within metaphysics thought of as the investigation and analysis of fundamental philosophical concepts but there is also metaphysics of a more contentious character where the subject-matter is provided by propositions which transcend what can be known either through experience or by pure reasoning. In this connection a central aim is to show how without dismissing them as nonsensical we may arrive at a fruitful interpretation of such propositions.