This is philosophy bites with me David Edmonds and me Nigel Warburton.

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I'm reading this cue now. In 25 seconds I'll have finished. My reading of it will

have been done past. In the future, about 20 seconds from now you'll be hearing an

interview with Hugh Miller

emerged as professor of philosophy at Cambridge University.

Professor Miller believes that Tense, the past, the present, the future,

are not part of time per se.

Certainly my introduction to the interview

precedes the interview.

Things happen earlier and later,

but time itself is not essentially tense.

Confused? Hopefully in 10 minutes you'll be less so.

Hugh Mellor took time out to talk to Philosophy Bites.

Hugh Mellor, welcome to Philosophy Bites.

Thank you very much. Now the topic we're focusing

on today is time. It's quite easy to see why physicists would be interested in time and

its measurement, but why philosophers? Well, time's always posed a problem which interests philosophers and indeed

interests some physicists for philosophical reasons, like whether it flows, whether it's something

in itself or whether time is just, so to to speak something that separates events that happen

and the relation between time and space is another question that interests both physicists

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