The Language and Reality of Time [Hardcover]

Thomas Sattig develops a comprehensive framework for doing philosophy of time, and offers an original three-dimensionalist picture of the material world. He brings together a variety of different perspectives, linking our ordinary conception of time with the physicist's conception, and linking metaphysical questions about time with questions in the philosophy of language.

1. Temporal Supervenience
2. Three-Dimensionalism and Four-Dimensionalism
3. Temporal Predication and Supervenience Failure
4. Four-Dimensionalist Supervenience
5. Three-Dimensionalist Supervenience

...takes the reader on a journey through the labyrinthine intricacies of contemporary analytic philosophy of language, theoretical linguistics, and Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. --Language and Time