ABSTRACT
Many things that the word time is used to name in both technical and idiomatic talk are not real. The word “real,” never a simple thing, is particularly slippery when applied to time. If dimensional-time is physically real, it must have a character profoundly different from mind-dependent dimensional-time. The philosophy of history pays little or negligible attention to the philosophy of time. R. G. Collingwood did not significantly address memory or time, but his concern with the processes of historical understanding helped open philosophy of history to the epistemological problems of twentieth century thought. In place of infinite regression Franz Brentano pointed to the “boundary character” of every point in time. Speaking of the work of art, Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood say No device more effectively generates the effect of a doubling or bending of time than the work of art, a strange kind of event whose relation to time is plural.
