1. The Philosophy of Time: A look at Presentisim and Eternalism McTaggart’s view of time in his Paper “The Unreality of Time” Zane Haley

2. We Commonly Think of Time as…

3. The Asymmetry of Time

4. Presentism  William James (1842-1910)  “The present is the short duration in which we are immediately and incessantly sensible”

5. Now, ask yourself. How fast does time pass?

6. The Counter: Eternalism  Have to accept a huge assumption  4 th Dimensionality The “block universe,” on the right

7. McTaggart’s Division of Time "Accordingly the A series has to be pre-supposed in order to account for the A series. And this is clearly a vicious circle" (p. 468).

8. Personal Argument for Eternalism: Relativity  Main Argument for Eternalism  Frames of reference yield different chronological points of view.