Le Poidevin, Robin (ed.) - Questions of Time and Tense

One of the central and most rapidly developing debates in contemporary metaphysics concerns the status of our ordinary division of time into past, present, and future. On one side of the debate stand the tensed theorists, who take seriously our intuitive conception of time, expressed metaphorically (or perhaps not so metaphorically) by the picture of time 'flowing'. On the other side stand the tenseless theorists, who deny the reality of temporal passage, and take our intuitive conception simply to reflect our perspective on time rather than the nature of time itself.