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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... three - dimensional , Euclidean ( so travellers moving along parallel trajectories will never meet ) , isotropic ( there is no privileged spatial direction ) and continuous ( infinitely divisible ) . •. Questions of structure.
... three - dimensional , Euclidean ( so travellers moving along parallel trajectories will never meet ) , isotropic ( there is no privileged spatial direction ) and continuous ( infinitely divisible ) . •. Questions of structure.
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Barry Dainton. direction ) and continuous ( infinitely divisible ) . • Time is infinite , one - dimensional , linear , anisotropic ( there is a privileged temporal direction ) and continuous . • There is just one space , and one time ...
Barry Dainton. direction ) and continuous ( infinitely divisible ) . • Time is infinite , one - dimensional , linear , anisotropic ( there is a privileged temporal direction ) and continuous . • There is just one space , and one time ...
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... directions , no one spatial direction is privileged ; up , down , right , left , north , south , east , west , irrespective of what we call them , each direction gets its own individual arrow ( see Figure 1.3 ) . This diagrammatic ...
... directions , no one spatial direction is privileged ; up , down , right , left , north , south , east , west , irrespective of what we call them , each direction gets its own individual arrow ( see Figure 1.3 ) . This diagrammatic ...
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... direction of the future. Even if our future experiences are just as real as our past ones, as the B-theorist maintains, at any given point during our lives we have detailed knowledge only of the earlier parts of our life; indeed, for ...
... direction of the future. Even if our future experiences are just as real as our past ones, as the B-theorist maintains, at any given point during our lives we have detailed knowledge only of the earlier parts of our life; indeed, for ...
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... direction, and paralleling all of these, and accounting for their importance and obviousness to us, is the pattern ... direction because the time direction itself is aboriginally unique. Modern philosophical wisdom, however, consists ...
... direction, and paralleling all of these, and accounting for their importance and obviousness to us, is the pattern ... direction because the time direction itself is aboriginally unique. Modern philosophical wisdom, however, consists ...
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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