Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-371) and index.

Preliminary Materials / M. F. Wagner -- Introduction / M. F. Wagner -- Chapter One. Is Time Real? / M. F. Wagner -- Chapter Two. Eleaticism, Temporality, And Time / M. F. Wagner -- Chapter Three. The Makings Of A Temporal Universe / M. F. Wagner -- Chapter Four. Parmenidean Time And The Impossible Now / M. F. Wagner -- Chapter Five. Cosmic Motion And The Speed Of Time / M. F. Wagner -- Chapter Six. Temporal Cognition And The Return Of The Now / M. F. Wagner -- Chapter Seven. Real Temporality In An Aristotelian World / M. F. Wagner -- Chapter Eight. Does Aristotle Refute Eleaticism? / M. F. Wagner -- Chapter Nine. Temporality, Eternality, And Plotinus’ New Platonism / M. F. Wagner -- Chapter Ten. Plotinus’ Critique Of Aristotelian Motion / M. F. Wagner -- Chapter Eleven. Indefinite Temporality And The Measure Of Motion / M. F. Wagner -- Chapter Twelve. Plotinus’ Neoplatonic Account Of Time / M. F. Wagner -- Bibliography / M. F. Wagner -- Index / M. F. Wagner.

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The nature and existence of time is a fascinating and puzzling feature of human life and awareness. This book integrates interdisciplinary work and approaches from such fields as physics, psychology, biology, phenomenology, and technology studies with philosophical analyses and considerations to explain a number of facets of the perennnial question of time's nature and existence, both in contemporary and in its initial classical Greek context; and it then explores and explains two of the most influential investigations of time in classical Western thought: Aristotle's, as presented in his Physics , and the (neo)Platonist Plotinus' in his treatise On Time and Eternity . Original interpretative perspectives are argued in both cases, and special attention is paid to Plotinus as partly responding to and critiquing Aristotle's account.