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These are just some of the fundamental questions addressed in Time and Space. Writing for a primary readership of advanced undergraduate and graduate philosophy students, Barry Dainton introduces the central ideas and arguments that make space and time such philosophically challenging topics. Although recognising that many issues in the philosophy of time and space involve technical features of physics, Dainton has been careful to keep the conceptual issues accessible to students with little scientific or mathematical training. Surveying historical debates and ideas at the forefront of contemporary thinking, the book is unrivaled in its coverage. Topics include McTaggart's argument for the unreality of change; static, tensed, and dynamic time; time travel and causal arrows; space as void, motion, and curved spac; as well as a non-technical introduction to the special theory of relativity and the key features of general relativity, spacetime, and strings. Dainton also addresses the relationship between the philosophy of time and broader human concerns involving actions, ethics, fatalism, and death.
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Time and Space
ISBN 10: 0773523022
ISBN 13: 9780773523029
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. [PHILOSOPHY]. Dainton, Barry. "Time and Space." Montreal and Kingston, Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. First edition. English language. Hardcover without jacket. Text with black and white illustrations. 9.5 x 6.25 x 1 in. 24 x 16 x 2.5 cm. 21 oz. xiv, 386 pp. Black boards with gilt lettering. Corners of boards are stubbed and rubbed. Text clean. Very Good. ISBN: 0773523022."These are just some of the fundamental questions addressed in 'Time and Space.' Writing for a primary readership of advanced undergraduate and graduate philosophy students, Barry Dainton introduces the central ideas and arguments that make space and time such philosophically challenging topics. Although recognising that many issues in the philosophy of time and space involve technical features of physics, Dainton has been careful to keep the conceptual issues accessible to students with little scientific or mathematical training. Surveying historical debates and ideas at the forefront of contemporary thinking, the book is unrivaled in its coverage. Topics include McTaggart's argument for the unreality of change; static, tensed, and dynamic time; time travel and causal arrows; space as void, motion, and curved spac; as well as a non-technical introduction to the special theory of relativity and the key features of general relativity, spacetime, and strings. Dainton also addresses the relationship between the philosophy of time and broader human concerns involving actions, ethics, fatalism, and death.". Codice articolo 0002668
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