The Arguments of Time - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0197263461 ISBN 13: 9780197263464

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2006

Riassunto

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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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)

Contenuti

• John Lucas: A Century of Time
• Michael Tooley: The Metaphysics of Time
• Gregory Currie: Can There be a Literary Philosophy of Time?
• Roberto Torretti: On Relativity, Time Reckoning and the Topology of Time Series
• Julian Barbour: The Development of Machian Themes in the Twentieth Century
• Jeremy Butterfield and Chris Isham: On the Emergence of Time in Quantum Gravity
• Karel Kuchar: The Problem of Time in Quantum Geometrodynamics
• James Higginbotham: Tense, Indexicality and Consequence
• Michel Treisman: The Perception of Time: Philosophical Views and Psychological Evidence

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0197263461
• ISBN 13: 9780197263464
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 270
• Redattore: Butterfield Jeremy
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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