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11Wishing It Were Now Some Other TimeIn Michael Stöltzner & Friedrich Stadler (eds.), Time and History: Proceedings of the 28. International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg Am Wechsel, Austria 2005, De Gruyter. pp. 43-50. 2006.
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8"Phenomenology and Extentialism: An Introduction" by Reinhardt Grossmann (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (1): 160. 1986.
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26The ontology of timePrometheus Books. 2004.L. Nathan Oaklander is one of the leading philosophers of time defending the tenseless or B-Theory of time. He has remained at the forefront of this field since the early 1980s and today he is arguably the most formidable opponent of the tensed or A-theory of time. Much of the direction of the debate in this field for the past twenty years or so, especially in regards to the new tenseless theory of time, has been influenced by Oaklander's work. This book presents a carefully argued defense of th…Read more
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66McTaggart’s Paradox and the Infinite Regress of Temporal AttributionsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 25 (3): 425-431. 1987.
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1Freedom and the new theory of timeIn Robin Le Poidevin (ed.), Questions of Time and Tense, Oxford University Press. pp. 185-205. 1998.
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14C. D. Broad’s Philosophy of TimeRoutledge. 2020.In this study, Oaklander's primary aim is to examine critically C.D. Broad’s changing views of time and in so doing both clarify the central disputes in the philosophy of time, explicate the various positions Broad took regarding them, and develop his own responses both to Broad and the issues debated.
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48Personal Identity, Responsibility and TimeIn Heather Dyke (ed.), Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 161--178. 2003.Peer Reviewed.
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Mc Taggart's paradox revisitedIn L. Nathan Oaklander & Quentin Smith (eds.), The New Theory of Time, Yale Up. pp. 211-213. 1994.
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74The Importance of Time (edited book)Kluwer. 2001.The Philosophy of Time Society grew out of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on the Philosophy of Time offered by George Schlesinger in 1991. The members of that seminar wanted to promote interest in the philosophy of time and Jon N. Turgerson offered to become the first Director of the society with the initial costs underwritten by the Drake University Center for the Humanities. Thus, the Philosophy of Time Society (PTS) was formed in 1993. Its goal is to promote the study …Read more
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51Time and Foreknowledge: A Critique of ZagzebskiReligious Studies 31 (1). 1995.One problem facing those who attempt to reconcile divine foreknowledge with human freedom is to explain how a temporal God can have knowledge of the future, if the future does not exist. In her recent book, "The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge," Linda Zagzebski attempts to provide an explanation by making use of a four-dimensional model in which the past, present and future exist. In this note I argue that the model Zagzebski offers to support the coplausibility of divine foreknowledge and …Read more
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24Delmas Lewis on Persons and ResponsibilityPhilosophy Research Archives 13 181-187. 1987.Delmas Lewis has argued that the tenseless view of time is committed to a view of personal identity according to which no one can be held morally responsible for their actions. His argument, if valid, is a serious objection to the tenseless view. The purpose of this paper is to defend the detenser by pointing out the pitfalls in Lewis’ argument.
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78Particulars, positional qualities, and individuationPhilosophy of Science 44 (3): 478-490. 1977.In this paper I attempt to show that an argument offered by Bergmann and Hausman against positional qualities and for bare particulars as individuators is unsound. I proceed by giving two ontological assays of an ordinary thing and showing that the entity that individuates on one assay--a bare particular--does not provide deeper ontological ground of individuation than the entity that individuates on the other assay--a positional quality. Since the argument for particulars is based on the premis…Read more
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113Parfit, circularity, and the unity of consciousnessMind 96 (October): 525-29. 1987.In his recent book, Reasons and Persons, Derek Parfit propounds a version of the psychological criterion of personal identity.1 According to the variant he adopts, the numerical identity through time of persons consists in non-branching psychological continuity no matter how it is caused. One traditional objection to a view of this sort is that it is circular, since psychological continuity presupposes personal identity. Although Parfit frequently denies the importance of personal identity, he c…Read more
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12Mctaggart's Paradox and the Infinite Regress of Temporal Attributions: A Reply to SmithSouthern Journal of Philosophy 25 (3): 425-431. 1987.
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993Time, Change and Freedom: An Introduction to MetaphysicsRoutledge. 1995.First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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1Introduction: McTaggart's Paradox and the Tensed Theory of Time.”In L. Nathan Oaklander & Quentin Smith (eds.), The New Theory of Time, Yale Up. pp. 157--162. 1994.