Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-282) and index.

Preliminary Material -- Chapter One: Introduction: How old is time? -- Chapter Two: How it started: From Pherecydes to Plato -- Chapter Three: Aristotle: Measurable duration and instant -- Chapter Four: Atomists, holists, moralists: the Epicureans and the Stoics -- Chapter Five: The two times of Neoplatonism -- Chapter Six: Saint Augustine: two times and two creations -- Chapter Seven: Retrospect and progress -- Chapter Eight: Utrum tempus possit esse sine anima: Debates around 1300 -- Chapter Nine: Intermezzo: The arrival of the clock -- Chapter Ten: From Renaissance to Baroque -- Chapter Eleven: Duration and absolute time: Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Newton -- Chapter Twelve: The century of Leibniz, Berkeley and Kant -- Chapter Thirteen: Idealists versus realists -- Chapter Fourteen: In search of authentic time: Bergson and the phenomenologists -- Chapter Fifteen: The view from physics: the empiricists -- Chapter Sixteen: Toward the present -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

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This book deals with the history of a central problem in the philosophy of time: Can time exist without mind or consciousness, and if not, in what respects? Aristotle was the first to formulate this problem, and it has been intensively discussed ever since. This book analyses the answers and arguments and sets them in their historical context. Although there have been very different approaches, the book shows important continuities as well. Besides being a specialist monograph, it can be used in courses on the philosophy of time in general, or on the realism/idealism debate.