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(cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,//,SPi (cid:2) (cid:2) Totheoneswhomakelifespecial,Isla,Lily,Ewan,andLisa (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,//,SPi (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,//,SPi (cid:2) (cid:2) Contents Acknowledgments xi ListofFigures xv ListofBoxes xix . TheProblemofTime  . ManifestTime  .. Now  .. Flow  .. Past/Futureasymmetry  .. Ismanifesttimeuniversal?  . PhysicalTime  .. Nomanifesttime  .. Whatmakestimespecial?  . The“TwoTimes”Problem  . FromTheretoHere  . LostTime:RelativityTheory  . ClassicalPhysics  .. Recoveringspaceandtime  .. Classicalidealclocksandmanifesttime  .. Trautman–Cartantheory  . Relativity  . Where’sTime?  . MinkowskiSpacetime  . LorentzianTime  . OutsideMinkowski:Domes,Donuts,andDiamonds  . Conclusion  . TearingSpacetimeAsunder  . CauchyTime  . “Unique”TimeFunctions  . Time,Stuff,andLaws  . Conclusion  . QuantumBecoming?  . QuantumMechanics  . Popper’sExperimentisCrucis  .. Quantumpreferredframesandtime  ..Caveatsandalternatives  ..Thecoordinationproblem  . QuantumBecomingviaCollapses?  . Conclusion  (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,//,SPi (cid:2) (cid:2) viii contents . IntimationsofQuantumGravitationalTime  . TheBestofTimes:“AsynchronousBecoming”inCausalSets  .. ThebasickinematicsofCST  .. Takinggrowthseriously  . TheWorstofTimes:DisappearingTimeinCanonicalQuantumGravity  .. Semiclassicaltime  .. Justifyingtheapproximations  . Conclusion  . TheDifferencesBetweenTimeandSpace  . TheProjectReconceived  . TimeinPhysics  .. Themetric  .. Dimensionality  .. Mobilityasymmetry  .. Directionoftime  .. Naturalkindasymmetry  . TheFragmentationofTime  . Conclusion  . Laws,Systems,andTime  . SystemLawsandTime  . TimeistheGreatInformer  . BindingTime  .. One-dimensionality  .. Closedtimelikecurves  .. Thedirectionoftime  .. Naturalkindasymmetry  . MetaphysicalVariations  . QuestionsandConnections  . Conclusion  . LookingattheWorldSideways  . StrengthandWell-posedCauchyProblems  . TheWorlds  . Proposal  . TheArgument  . Illustration  . IsItTime?  . TurningPagesinNon-temporalDirections  .. Pagesoflight  .. Pagesoftime  . Conclusion  . DoWeExperiencethePresent?  . MetaphysicsofTime  . TheProblemofthePresenceofExperience  (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,//,SPi (cid:2) (cid:2) contents ix . TheTemporalKnowledgeArgument  . FromMetaphysicstoPsychology:PerceivedSynchrony  .. Temporalventriloquism  .. Temporalrecalibration  .. Comments  . Interlude:MeasuringSubjectiveSimultaneity  . ExplodingtheNow  . DoesSynchronyPopOut?  . Conclusion  . StuckintheCommonNow  . DisagreementandtheCaseofPH  . ManufacturingtheNow:Signals,Speed,andStamps  .. Timestampsnotneeded  .. Thecommonnow  . WigglinginTimevsWigglinginSpace  . Conclusion  . TheFlowofTime:StitchingtheWorldTogether  . SharpeningFocus  . MeetIGUS  . GettingIGUSStuckinTime  . OutfittingIGUS  .. Sensingmotionandchange  .. Speciouspresent  .. Feltduration  . MemoriesandFlow  . TheEnduringWitness  . FromFlowingSelvestoAnimatedTime  . TemporalDecenteringandtheSelf  . TheActingSelf  . TheExplanationofPassage  . Conclusion  . ExplainingtheTemporalValueAsymmetry  . “ThankGoodnessThat’sOver”  . TheProximal/DistantAsymmetry  . TheHumeanSolution  . TheKnowledgeAsymmetry  . TheAffectAsymmetry  . ExplainingthePFAsymmetry  . OtherTemporalBiases  . ExplainingOtherTimeBiases  . Conclusion  . MovingPasttheABCsofTime  . AnalyticPhilosophyofTime:APottedandBiasedHistory  (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2) (cid:2)