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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... dimension has been suppressed , each two - dimensional slice of the block represents a three - dimensional volume of space . 1.2 Questions of structure Irrespective of how the debate between substantivalists and relationists is resolved ...
... dimension has been suppressed , each two - dimensional slice of the block represents a three - dimensional volume of space . 1.2 Questions of structure Irrespective of how the debate between substantivalists and relationists is resolved ...
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... dimensional conception, the same applies in the case of "now". Someone in 1801 who says "It's snowing now" is saying ... dimensional arrangement of coexisting locations (places), none of which is special; time consists of a linear one ...
... dimensional conception, the same applies in the case of "now". Someone in 1801 who says "It's snowing now" is saying ... dimensional arrangement of coexisting locations (places), none of which is special; time consists of a linear one ...
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... dimensional time-line suffices, but what we do not usually recognize is that this one-dimensional representation is drastically incomplete: it provides no information at all about the movement of the present. We know from our ordinary ...
... dimensional time-line suffices, but what we do not usually recognize is that this one-dimensional representation is drastically incomplete: it provides no information at all about the movement of the present. We know from our ordinary ...
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... dimensional meta- time that we considered earlier, and is problematic for the same reasons. Our lives extend through an extra dimension: we are not confined to one world, or one spacetime, we are scattered beings whose lives are spread ...
... dimensional meta- time that we considered earlier, and is problematic for the same reasons. Our lives extend through an extra dimension: we are not confined to one world, or one spacetime, we are scattered beings whose lives are spread ...
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... dimensional ensemble, lacking a moving present, wherein all times and events are equally real. But few (if any) of ... dimension which exists in addition to the three of space and in virtue of which the properties of things can change; a ...
... dimensional ensemble, lacking a moving present, wherein all times and events are equally real. But few (if any) of ... dimension which exists in addition to the three of space and in virtue of which the properties of things can change; a ...
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