ABSTRACT
Readers of these essays will by now have formed the impression that I am committed to rescuing metaphysics from the jaws of physics. One manifestation of this mission is my opposition to reducing time to a quasi-spatial dimension and its further reduction to numbers. us reduced, time becomes a mere variable – t – that has no qualities, only numerical values, and none of the features that make it central to human life. For example, little t, unlike time as we experience it, has no tenses. e diff erence between, say, a regretted past and an anticipated future is lost.
