J. M. E. McTaggart

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J. M. E. McTaggart FBA
Portrait by Walter Stoneman, 1917
Born	John McTaggart Ellis 3 September 1866 London, England
Died	18 January 1925(1925-01-18) (aged 58) London, England
Other names	John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
Spouse	Margaret Elizabeth Bird ​ ​ (m. 1899)​
Era	19th-/20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	British idealism
Academic advisors	Henry Sidgwick James Ward
Notable students	C. D. Broad
Main interests	Metaphysics ethics philosophy of religion
Notable ideas	The unreality of time (A-series and B-series) B-theory of time McTaggart's paradox McTaggartian change

John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart^[a] FBA (3 September 1866 – 18 January 1925) was an English idealist metaphysician. For most of his life McTaggart was a fellow and lecturer in philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was an exponent of the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and among the most notable of the British idealists. McTaggart is known for "The Unreality of Time" (1908), in which he argues that time is unreal. The work has been widely discussed through the 20th century and into the 21st.

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