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Book SynopsisPart I: Starting Points.- Chapter 1: What Is Actually Being Argued For?.- Chapter 2: What Is Being Argued Against?.- Chapter 3: The State of the Discussion in Academic Philosophy and Physics.- First Interlude: Why the Existence of the Past Can Make a Difference to Our Sense of Life.- Chapter 4: The Role of Values and Emotions in the Discussion.- Chapter 5: How Does Personal Identity Work if the Past Still Exists?.- Part II: New Lifeworld Arguments for the Existence of the Past.- Chapter 6: The Present Is Too Small for a Meaningful Life.- Chapter 7: The Present Is Incredibly Lonely.- Chapter 8: The Existence of the Past Is the Basis of Moral Action.- Chapter 9: The Existence of the Past Comforts Us in Dealing with Death.- Chapter 10: The Existence of the Past Is the Foundation of the World.- Second Interlude: Why the Existence of the Past Also Makes a Difference to Our Sense of Life on Earth.- Chapter 11: The Existence of the Past Allows Us to Resist the Great Transience.- Part III: Problems and Answers.- Chapter 12: The Terror of the Past.- Chapter 13: The Specialness of the Present for Decisions and the Question of the Future Outlook.- Chapter 14. Outlook.
