Intro to Philosophy of Time
3 min readFeb 8, 2023
Philosophy of time is an area of inquiry within metaphysics. Metaphysics is one of the four main branches of philosophy — the others being ethics / aesthetics, epistemology, and logic. Metaphysics explores the nature of reality, including what sorts of entities exist, and the nature of cause and effect.
The metaphysician JME McTaggart (1908) divided philosophy of time into two general camps:
