| The Arguments of Time | |
| Foreword to the Second Edition | p. xv |
| Ascent--By Way of Introduction | p. 3 |
| Some Ideas about Philosophy | |
| Arrows, Thoughts, and Experiences | |
| Leitmotivs | |
| Organization of the Material | |
| The Glass Wall | |
| The Intellectual Quest | |
| Representative Ideas of Time in Western Thought | p. 11 |
| Aegean Beginnings | |
| Zeno and His Virtual Disjunctions | |
| Plato and Aristotle | |
| The Eastern Mediterranean | |
| Christianity and Patristic Philosophy | |
| Islam | |
| The Schoolmen and the Late Middle Ages | |
| The Renaissance | |
| Kant and Critical Philosophy | |
| Hegel and the Dialectics of History | |
| The Fragmentation of Philosophy | |
| Oriental Concepts of Time | p. 39 |
| Time in China's Past | |
| India and the Eternal Present | |
| Japan and the Unity of Opposites | |
| Being, Becoming, and Existential Tension | p. 43 |
| The Empirical Search | |
| Selected Regularities: Predictable Futures | p. 47 |
| The Skies, Seasons, and Epochs | |
| The sun, the moon, and some "hours" | |
| The moon, calendars, and more "hours" | |
| Calendars and chronologies | |
| The Flow of Water and Sand | |
| Burning Rates | |
| Controlled Oscillations of Large Bodies | |
| Controlled Vibrations of Small Bodies | |
| Clocks and Clockwatchers | p. 64 |
| The Stuff that Clocks Are Made of | p. 68 |
| Time Scales | |
| Simultaneities | |
| Events and Processes | |
| The Seeker | |
| The Perception and Conception of Children and Ideas | p. 72 |
| The Error of Misplaced Precision | |
| The Difficulty of Regressive Sharing | |
| Universes of Perception | |
| Three Modules of the Short-term Present | p. 76 |
| The Physiological Present in Man, and Its Structure | |
| The Creature Present of Animals | |
| The Psychological Present | |
| The Mental Present | p. 81 |
| ... Memory and Recall | |
| ... Language | |
| ... Permanence and Change | |
| ... Personal Identity | |
| Resolutions of Perceptual Conflicts | p. 91 |
| Images in Heaven and on Earth | |
| The Roots of Time in the Physical World | |
| Aspects of Time and the Many | p. 97 |
| Probability | |
| Controlled Randomness | |
| Levels of Causation | |
| Atomicity, Continuity, and Uncertainty | |
| Thermodynamic Arrows of Time | |
| Aspects of Time and the One | p. 114 |
| From Absolute Rest to Absolute Motion | |
| The New Invariant | |
| Clocks and Proper Time | |
| The Astral Geometry of Causs | |
| Matter and Inertia | |
| The Largest Set of Objects | |
| The Living Symmetries of Physics | p. 137 |
| Time Contained: Cosmologies | |
| From Umwelts to the Idea of a Universe | p. 141 |
| Beginnings: from Chaos to Conflict | p. 144 |
| The Inner and the Outer Landscapes | |
| Shift to the Outer Landscape | |
| Cronus versus Faust | |
| The Long Present: How to Deal with Conflicts | p. 152 |
| Universal Cosmologies | |
| Cosmic Time as Geometry | |
| Time as History | |
| Origins | |
| Ideas of lawfulness | |
| Speculative perspectives | |
| Critical perspectives | |
| Epistemic hurdles | |
| Endings: Estimates of Death | p. 169 |
| Eternalistic Peace | |
| Apocalyptic Tension | |
| The Eschaton in Natural Philosophy | |
| Time Extended: Life | |
| The Cyclic Order | p. 178 |
| The Physiological Clock | |
| Physiological Clocks and Their Zeitgebers | |
| Periodicity, Primitive Life, and Existential Tension | |
| A detour to pathology | |
| Unicellular organisms | |
| Improved bioclocks | |
| Aging and Death | p. 192 |
| Aging of Others | |
| Aging of the Self | |
| Death of Others | |
| Death and the Self | |
| Descent and Suffering | |
| Righteous Life and Sinister Death | |
| Organic Evolution | p. 208 |
| Life in the World at Large | |
| Time and the Origins of Life | |
| Levels of Causation, Uncertainty, and Undeterminacy | |
| The Dynamics of Adaptation | |
| The Mind of the Matter | |
| The Organ of Time Sense | |
| The Advent of the Mind | p. 235 |
| Bodies, Minds, and Souls | |
| Philosophical Preferences | |
| Materialistic monism | |
| Idealistic monism | |
| Vitalistic monism | |
| Neutral monism | |
| Psychophysical dualism | |
| Biophysical dualism | |
| Neurological Preferences | |
| Mind as Expectation and Memory | p. 247 |
| Memories and Expectations Concerning Others | |
| Predictions Concerning the Self | |
| The Mind as Strategy | p. 257 |
| The Very Complex | |
| Conscious Experience and Free Will | |
| Prediction and Creativity | |
| The Mind as Communication | p. 271 |
| The Gift of Tongues | |
| The Mind in Its Many Settings | |
| Out of the Depths | |
| A Region of Functions between Life and Mind | p. 283 |
| The Devil of Vienna | p. 287 |
| The Sage of Kusnacht | p. 294 |
| The Evolution of Conscious Experience | p. 299 |
| Future, Past, and Present | |
| The Experience of Timelessnes | |
| The Origins of Being and Becoming | |
| Some Implications of the Deep Structure of Time | p. 313 |
| The beginning and end of time | |
| Atomicity versus continuity of time | |
| Motion and rest | |
| Collective Greatness | |
| Epistemology and the True | |
| Epistemologies | p. 321 |
| Theories of Knowledge as Philosophy | |
| Theories of Knowledge as Biology, Psychology, or Sociology | |
| Knowledge, Truth, and Time | |
| Personality and Attitvides to Time | p. 331 |
| Personality and Preferred Ways of Knowing | p. 334 |
| Some Individual Preferences | |
| Collective Perceptions of Science as Truth | |
| Perspectives | |
| Divergences, East and West | |
| Psychological predispositions in the Christian West | |
| Theoretical predispositions | |
| The scientific method | |
| The integrative power and the limits of the scientific method | |
| A Psychological Aside Pertaining to the Structure of Knowledge | p. 350 |
| A Mathematical Aside Pertaining to the Structure of Knowledge | p. 356 |
| Religion, Politics, and the Good | |
| Simple Thoughts about a Difficult Subject | p. 361 |
| The Need for Guidance in Conduct | p. 364 |
| God and Devil in the Religious Vision | |
| Christianity, Progress, and the Good | |
| Good and Evil and the Political Vision | p. 373 |
| The Good of the Polis | |
| The Good of the Technopolis | |
| The Good of Life | |
| The Good, Emergence and War | p. 387 |
| Problems of Stagnation | |
| Problems of War | |
| Duty, Responsibility, and Temporality | p. 394 |
| Arts, Letters, and the Beautiful | |
| From Imitation to Independence | p. 398 |
| Aesthetic Adventures | p. 401 |
| The Fine Arts | |
| Music | |
| Tragedy | |
| Poetry and the Novel | |
| The Film | |
| The Freedom of the Beautiful | p. 432 |
| Time as Conflict | |
| Temporalities | p. 436 |
| Transcendences | p. 440 |
| Future and Past | p. 441 |
| The Strategy of Existence | p. 443 |
| Abbreviations for Works Frequently Quoted | p. 447 |
| Notes and References | p. 448 |
| Author Index | p. 509 |
| Subject Index | p. 517 |
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