The flow of time is a deep, significant and universal aspect of human life. Yet it remains a mystery and many dismiss the flow of time as illusory. Craig Callender explores this puzzle, and offers a fascinating explanation of why creatures experience time as flowing - even if, as physics suggests, it isn't.

• 1: The Problem of Time


• 2: Lost Time: Relativity Theory


• 3: Tearing Spacetime Asunder


• 4: Quantum Becoming?


• 5: Intimations of Quantum Gravitational Time


• 6: The Differences Between Time and Space


• 7: Laws, Systems, and Time


• 8: Looking at the World Sideways


• 9: Do We Experience the Present?


• 10: Stuck in the Common Now


• 11: The Flow of Time: Stitching the World Together


• 12: Explaining the Temporal Value Asymmetry


• 13: Moving Past the ABCs of Time


• 14: Putting It All Together

Craig Callender earned his PhD with research on the direction of time at Rutgers University. He then worked at the London School of Economics before moving to the University of California, San Diego. He has interests in time and physics, the interpretation of quantum mechanics, quantum gravity, philosophy of science, and environmental ethics. He is editor of the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time (2011).