Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: How old is time? 2. How it started: From Pherecydes to Plato 3. Aristotle: Measurable duration and instant 4. Atomists, holists, moralists: the Epicureans and the Stoics 5. The two times of Neoplatonism 6. Saint Augustine: two times and two creations 7. Retrospect and progress 8. Utrum tempus possit esse sine anima: Debates around 1300 9. Intermezzo: The arrival of the clock 10. From Renaissance to Baroque 11. Duration and absolute time: Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Newton 12. The century of Leibniz, Berkeley and Kant 13. Idealists versus realists 14. In search of authentic time: Bergson and the phenomenologists 15. The view from physics: the empiricists 16. Toward the present Epilogue Bibliography Index
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