Known today mainly as the author of a paradox designed to prove the unreality of time--which, even if it has not convinced many, nonetheless served as the starting point for the great majority of philosophical discussions about time in the twentieth...

. 1866–1925. Cambridge metaphysician, born in London, who developed an idealist (and atheistic) system centring on the notions of substance and the part/whole relation (and also involving human reincarnation). He denied the reality of many...

Mctaggart, John Mctaggart Ellis(1866–1925) John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart, a British metaphysician, was born in London, the son of Francis and Caroline Ellis. (His father later took the name McTaggart to fulfill a condition for inheriting a...

John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart (September 3, 1866 – January 18, 1925) was an Idealist metaphysician. For most of his life McTaggart was a lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was considered one of England's leading Hegel scholars at the...

James Mills Enneis, 69, a psychologist who directed the department of psychodrama at St. Elizabeths Hospital from 1949 until he retired in 1978, died of congestive heart failure March 18 at Capitol Hill Hospital. Mr. Enneis was one of the leading exponents and...

McTaggart aided outdoors Associated Press Saturday, March 24, 2001 Rome -- David McTaggart, one of the founders of Greenpeace International, was killed Friday in a head-on car crash on a country road in central Italy. He was 68. McTaggart galvanized...

In the following essay, Oakeley questions McTaggart's proposition in the second volume of The Nature of Existence that the self can exist in reality simultaneously with the unreality of time.

In the following essay, Gotshalk attempts to refute McTaggart's notion against the reality of time as presented in his The Nature of Existence.

In the following essay, Patterson examines McTaggart's opinions regarding the notion of “man's last end,” attempting to reconcile McTaggart's Hegelian cosmology with Christian orthodoxy.