Michael Tooley

A number of philosophers have maintained that traditional ways of thinking about time involve metaphysical presuppositions. Jacques Derrida, however, has gone further, and has argued that the very concept of time is itself essentially metaphysical, and thus that there is no possibility of a nonmetaphysical conception of time. It is this latter claim that David Wood wishes to challenge. Thus, while he agrees that traditional conceptions of time have involved metaphysical presuppositions, he contends that it is possible to develop an alternative conceptual framework where this is not the case.