Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- List of Contributors -- Preface (Jo Alyson Parker, Paul A. Harris, and Christian Steineck) -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS -- President's Address: Cosmic Epics and Global Ethics (Paul A. Harris) -- Founder's Address: Constraining Chaos (J. T. Fraser) -- SECTION I THEORY AND EMPIRIE -- Chapter One Time: Biological, Intentional and Cultural (Founder's Prize for New Scholars) (Carlos Montemayor) -- Chapter Two The Battle for Time in the Brain (Peter A. Hancock) -- Chapter Three Memory, Anticipation and the (Un)reality of the Past and Future (Jonathan Tallant) -- Chapter Four Temporal Asymmetry and Relativity (Friedl Weinert) -- SECTION II THE LIMITS OF DURATION -- Chapter Five Technical Reproduction and the Question of Material Duration (Heike Klippel) -- Chapter Six Limits on the Duration of Copyright: Theories and Practice (Tyler T. Ochoa) -- Chapter Seven Waiting as a Temporal Constraint (Florian Klapproth) -- SECTION III CREATIVE CONSTRAINTS -- Chapter Eight David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas of Narrative Constraints and Environmental Limits (Jo Alyson Parker) -- Chapter Nine Closure and "Colored People's Time" (John Streamas) -- Response 1 (Robin Lucy) -- Response 2 (Deirdre H. McMahon) -- Chapter Ten Dramatic Time: Phenomena and Dilemmas (Carol A. Fischer) -- Response 1 (Laura Pattillo) -- Response 2 (Katherine Weiss) -- Chapter Eleven Evental Distention: Restless Simultaneity in Steve Reich's Piano Phase-Towards a Rehabilitation of the Real (Marc Botha) -- Chapter Twelve Music-Making Time? (Helen Sills) -- SECTION IV FINAL QUESTIONS -- Chapter Thirteen Pauline Eschatology: Thinking and Acting in the Time that Remains (Steven T. Ostovich) -- Chapter Fourteen How Death Was Invented and What It Is For (Frederick Turner) -- Response: Need Death Have a Purpose? (William R. LaFleur).

Chapter Fifteen Prefatory Remarks to Chapter Fifteen: Reflections: Let a Dialogue Begin (J. T. Fraser) -- Truth, Time, and the Extended Umwelt Principle: Conceptual Limits and Methodological Constraints (Christian Steineck) -- Index.