The Arguments of Time

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

Del i serien British Academy Centenary Monographs

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Beskrivning

These nine essays, commissioned on the initiative of the Philosophy section of the British Academy, address fundamental questions about time in philosophy, physics, linguistics, and psychology. Are there facts about the future? Could we affect the past? In physics, general relativity and quantum theory give contradictory treatments of time. So in the current search for a theory of quantum gravity, which should give way: general relativity or quantum theory? In linguistics and psychology, how does our language represent time, and how do our minds keep track of it?

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Utgivningsdatum:2006-03-09
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:423 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:British Academy Centenary Monographs
Antal sidor:270
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780197263464

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Review from previous edition The book consists of nine excellent but separate essays on various aspects of time ... It serves as an admirable introduction to recent work on what the editor rightly calls 'a controversial topic in present-day fundamental physics'. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics Jeremy Butterfield is to be congratulated for soliciting and editing provocative contributions from distinguished scholars with such varied backgrounds and perspectives. British Journal for the Philosopphy of Science ... original and outstanding in quality ... a significant contnribution to the philosophy of time. Of the recent anthologies in philosophy of time, this one is by far my favorite. Philosophy of Science

Innehållsförteckning

A Century of TimeThe Metaphysics of TimeCan There be a Literary Philosophy of Time?On Relativity, Time Reckoning and the Topology of Time SeriesThe Development of Machian Themes in the Twentieth CenturyOn the Emergence of Time in Quantum GravityThe Problem of Time in Quantum GeometrodynamicsTense, Indexicality and ConsequenceThe Perception of Time: Philosophical Views and Psychological Evidence