Language and Time

This monograph defends a tensed theory of time which contends that temporal determinations also include metaphysical properties of past-ness, present-ness and futurity. It challenges many of the leading arguments for alternative views.

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Quentin Smith defends a tensed theory of time, which contends that temporal determinations also include metaphysical properties of pastness, presentness and futurity. He challenges, through a careful analysis of contemporary writers, many of the leading arguments for alternative viewpoints, and concludes with an argument that the special theory of relativity is not a theory about time, but about the light-relations among physical events.