Companion to the Philosophy of Time

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

A Companion to the Philosophy of Time presents the broadest treatment of this subject yet; 32 specially commissioned articles - written by an international line-up of experts – provide an unparalleled reference work for students and specialists alike in this exciting field. The most comprehensive reference work on the philosophy of time currently availableThe first collection to tackle the historical development of the philosophy of time in addition to covering contemporary workProvides a tripartite approach in its organization, covering history of the philosophy of time, time as a feature of the physical world, and time as a feature of experienceIncludes contributions from both distinguished, well-established scholars and rising stars in the field

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-03-12
Mått:178 x 254 x 33 mm
Vikt:1 075 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
Antal sidor:600
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9780470658819

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Heather Dyke is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She has published many articles on the philosophy of time, and is the author of Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy (2008), and editor of Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection (2003) and From Truth to Reality: New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics (2009).Adrian Bardon is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is the editor of The Future of the Philosophy of Time (2012) and author of A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time (2013).

Recensioner i media

“This is an indispensable collection of articles on the philosophy of time. Its contributors illuminate every major aspect of it and its history. I can think of no better guide to the subject.” (Philosophy, Religion and Science Book Reviews, 5 April 2014)“Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.” (Choice, 1 November 2013)

Innehållsförteckning

Notes on Contributors xiAcknowledgments xviiIntroduction 1Heather Dyke and Adrian BardonPart I The History of the Philosophy of Time 71 Heraclitus and Parmenides 9Ronald C. Hoy2 Zeno’s Paradoxes 30Niko Strobach3 Aristotle on Time and Change 47Andrea Falcon4 Determinism, Fatalism, and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy 59Ricardo Salles5 Creation and Eternity in Medieval Philosophy 73Jon McGinnis6 Newton’s Philosophy of Time 87Eric Schliesser7 Classical Empiricism 102Lorne Falkenstein8 Kant and Time-Order Idealism 120Andrew Brook9 Husserl and the Phenomenology of Temporality 135Shaun Gallagher10 The Emergence of a New Family of Theories of Time 151John Bigelow11 The B-Theory in the Twentieth Century 167M. Joshua MozerskyPart II Time as a Feature of the Physical World 18312 Time in Classical and Relativistic Physics 185Gordon Belot13 Time in Cosmology 201Chris Smeenk14 On Time in Quantum Physics 220Jeremy Butterfield15 Time in Quantum Gravity 242Nick Huggett, Tiziana Vistarini, and Christian Wüthrich16 The Arrow of Time in Physics 262David Wallace17 Time and Causation 282Mathias Frisch18 Time Travel and Time Machines 301Douglas Kutach19 The Passage of Time 315Simon Prosser20 Time and Tense 328Heather Dyke21 Presentism, Eternalism, and the Growing Block 345Kristie Miller22 Change and Identity over Time 365Dana Lynne GoswickPart III Time as a Feature of Human Experience 38723 The Perception of Time 389Barry Dainton24 Transcendental Arguments and Temporal Experience 410Georges Dicker25 Memory 432Jordi Fernández26 Time in Mind 444Julian Kiverstein and Valtteri Arstila27 The Representation of Time in Agency 470Holly Andersen28 Temporal Indexicals 486John Perry29 Time – The Emotional Asymmetry 507Caspar Hare30 Evolutionary Explanations of Temporal Experience 521Heather Dyke and James Maclaurin31 Time and Freedom 535Robin Le Poidevin32 Time and Morality 549Krister BykvistIndex 563