The Changism books explore a connected set of questions about change, time, and the organization of reality. Each volume has a different purpose. Changism introduces the system across philosophy, experience, and cosmology. Relational Tempo Cosmology develops a specialist research framework. Searching for Time examines competing accounts of time and the arguments for choosing among them.
For most readers, Volume I is the best starting point. After that, follow the questions that interest you. The series numbers identify the volumes; you can choose your reading route by subject.
Volume I
The broad introduction. Beginning with familiar clocks, records, and enduring things, the rewritten second edition develops the proposal that concrete reality is fundamentally active. It moves from time and measurement to objects, causation, consciousness, and the universe reconstructed through its records.
Begin here if you want to understand how the parts of Changism fit together. The book builds its arguments through concrete examples and introduces technical questions as they arise.
Chapter numbers refer to the second edition of Changism, Volume I.
Second edition now available
Volume II
A Change-First Framework for Cosmic Time, Averaging, and Cosmological Inference
The specialist cosmology volume. How do observations made from particular locations, using local clocks and instruments, support an account of the universe as a whole? This book examines the relation between regional physical histories, cosmological averages, and the expansion histories inferred from observations.
Choose this volume if your main interests are relativity, cosmology, mathematical modelling, or the conditions under which a philosophical proposal could become a testable physical theory.
Volume III
Auditing Time Models
The comparative investigation. What exactly does an account of time propose, what does it explain, and what would be lost without it? This book applies a common set of questions to eternalism, presentism, growing-block and moving-spotlight theories, timelessness, emergent time, and Changism itself.
Choose this volume if you want to examine the arguments in detail, compare alternatives, or understand where the Changist position remains open to challenge.
Choose a Reading Route
For the whole picture, begin with Volume I. Its three parts connect the account of time to the wider philosophy and then to cosmology.
For the philosophy of time, read Volume I, Part I, and continue with Searching for Time. The first develops an accessible introduction; the second examines rival positions and their explanatory commitments more closely.
For cosmology, read Volume I, Part III, before turning to Relational Tempo Cosmology. Readers already familiar with relativity and cosmology can begin directly with the specialist volume's preface and opening chapters.
For consciousness and agency, begin with Volume I, Part II, especially Chapter 18, “A Life from Within.” Chapter 15 of Searching for Time develops the related discussion of lived duration, memory, and the sense of flow.
For records, evidence, and historical truth, follow Volume I, Chapters 3 and 17, then Searching for Time, Chapter 14. These passages distinguish what happened from what survives and from what anyone can establish.
Each book page provides a closer introduction and guidance on samples, editions, corrections, and related materials.