The March of Time: Evolving Conceptions of Time in the Light of Scientific Discoveries - Brossura

Weinert, Friedel

 
9783642437175: The March of Time: Evolving Conceptions of Time in the Light of Scientific Discoveries
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ISBN 10: 3642437176 ISBN 13: 9783642437175
Casa editrice: Springer, 2015

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The aim of this interdisciplinary study is to reconstruct the evolution of our changing conceptions of time in the light of scientific discoveries. It will adopt a new perspective and organize the material around three central themes, which run through our history of time reckoning: cosmology and regularity; stasis and flux; symmetry and asymmetry. It is the physical criteria that humans choose – relativistic effects and time-symmetric equations or dynamic-kinematic effects and asymmetric conditions – that establish our views on the nature of time. This book will defend a dynamic rather than a static view of time.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Friedel Weinert is professor of philosophy at Bradford University. He is the author of The Scientist as Philosopher (Springer 2004); Copernicus, Darwin and Freud (Blackwell 2008); the editor of Laws of Nature (de Gruyter 1995) and co-editor of Compendium of Quantum Physics (Springer 2009) and Evolution 2.0 (Springer 2012).

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The aim of this interdisciplinary study is to reconstruct the evolution of our changing conceptions of time in the light of scientific discoveries. It will adopt a new perspective and organize the material around three central themes, which run through our history of time reckoning: cosmology and regularity; stasis and flux; symmetry and asymmetry. It is the physical criteria that humans choose relativistic effects and time-symmetric equations or dynamic-kinematic effects and asymmetric conditions that establish our views on the nature of time. This book will defend a dynamic rather than a static view of time.

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Editore
Springer
Data di pubblicazione
2015
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
3642437176
ISBN 13 
9783642437175
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Numero di pagine
296
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9783642353468: The March of Time: Evolving Conceptions of Time in the Light of Scientific Discoveries

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  3642353460 ISBN 13:  9783642353468
Casa editrice: Springer Nature, 2013
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