Time and SpaceThe first edition (2001) of this title quickly established itself on courses on the philosophy of time and space. This fully revised and expanded new edition sees the addition of chapters on Zeno's paradoxes, speculative contemporary developments in physics, and dynamic time, making the second edition, once again, unrivalled in its breadth of coverage. Surveying both historical debates and the ideas of modern physics, Barry Dainton evaluates the central arguments in a clear and unintimidating way and is careful to keep the conceptual issues throughout comprehensible to students with little scientific or mathematical training. The book makes the philosophy of space and time accessible for anyone trying to come to grips with the complexities of this challenging subject. With over 100 original line illustrations and a full glossary of terms, the book has the requirements of students firmly in sight and will continue to serve as an essential textbook for philosophy of time and space courses. |
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... Asymmetries within time 4.1 The direction of time 4.2 Content-asymmetries: a fuller picture 4.3 Entropy 4.4 The causal route 4.5 Causation in question 4.6 Time in reverse 4.7 Fundamental forks 5 Tensed time 5.1 Tense versus dynamism 5.2 ...
... Asymmetries within time 4.1 The direction of time 4.2 Content-asymmetries: a fuller picture 4.3 Entropy 4.4 The causal route 4.5 Causation in question 4.6 Time in reverse 4.7 Fundamental forks 5 Tensed time 5.1 Tense versus dynamism 5.2 ...
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... asymmetry in our attitudes is problematic for the B-theory. The best-known of these arguments originated with Prior (1959), and runs thus. After several long hours of torment, a fierce headache at last fades away, and you think to ...
... asymmetry in our attitudes is problematic for the B-theory. The best-known of these arguments originated with Prior (1959), and runs thus. After several long hours of torment, a fierce headache at last fades away, and you think to ...
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... asymmetry poses a problem for anyone seeking to justify the bias towards the future in the first-person case. Might it not be that the pattern of concern that we display towards other people is more rational than our self-oriented ...
... asymmetry poses a problem for anyone seeking to justify the bias towards the future in the first-person case. Might it not be that the pattern of concern that we display towards other people is more rational than our self-oriented ...
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... asymmetrical patterning and distribution of events (we will be taking a close look at these asymmetries in the Chapter 4). This is undeniably so – at least at the macroscopic (and introspectible) levels in this region of our universe ...
... asymmetrical patterning and distribution of events (we will be taking a close look at these asymmetries in the Chapter 4). This is undeniably so – at least at the macroscopic (and introspectible) levels in this region of our universe ...
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... asymmetrical formations that ground the space - time distinction . If this should prove to be the case , time will ... Asymmetries within time DOI: 10.4324/9781315539324-4 4.1 The direction of.
... asymmetrical formations that ground the space - time distinction . If this should prove to be the case , time will ... Asymmetries within time DOI: 10.4324/9781315539324-4 4.1 The direction of.
Contents
Tensed time | |
Dynamic time | |
Time and consciousness | |
Tangible space | |
Spatial antirealism | |
Zeno and the continuum I | |
Zeno and the continuum II | |
Special relativity | |
Relativity and reality | |
General relativity | |
Spacetime metaphysics | |
Time travel | |
Conceptions of void | |
the classical debate | |
Absolute motion | |
Motion in spacetime | |
Curved | |
Strings | |
Glossary | |
Web resources | |
Index | |
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absolute space argue argument asymmetry at-at atoms B-theorist B-theory big bang Block theorist causal claim conception contents continuum curvature curved dark matter Descartes dimension direction discrete space distance relations distinction doctrine dynamic earlier Einstein entities Euclidean Euclidean space exist experience explain fact Figure finite Flatland force four-dimensional future galaxies geodesies geometry gravity Growing Block hence hole hyperplanes inertial effects infinite number interval Leibniz light locations material objects mathematical matter McTaggart metaphysical metrical Minkowski spacetime motion moving neo-Newtonian Newton Newtonian nomologically observable occur Oxford paradox particles past paths Philosophy physical plane position possess present Presentist problem properties quantum theory question reason region relationist relative rotating sense simultaneity sort spacetime points spatial relations speed string string theory structure substantival space substantivalist suppose surface temporal tensed tenseless things three-dimensional three-dimensional space true truthmakers two-dimensional universe velocity worldlines Zeno Zeno's Zeno's paradoxes