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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... future? Are space and time finite or infinite? For anyone with an interest in the large-scale composition of the ... future is not, it also seems clear that the present is real in a way the past is not, so what sort of reality does the ...
... future? Are space and time finite or infinite? For anyone with an interest in the large-scale composition of the ... future is not, it also seems clear that the present is real in a way the past is not, so what sort of reality does the ...
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... future . Although we may also insert arrows indicating various spatial directions , no one spatial direction is privileged ; up , down , right , left , north , south , east , west , irrespective of what we call them , each direction ...
... future . Although we may also insert arrows indicating various spatial directions , no one spatial direction is privileged ; up , down , right , left , north , south , east , west , irrespective of what we call them , each direction ...
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... future , but it is getting closer every day . Getting closer to what ? The present , of course . We can think of the present as advancing into the future , or the future advancing towards the present ; either way the distance between ...
... future , but it is getting closer every day . Getting closer to what ? The present , of course . We can think of the present as advancing into the future , or the future advancing towards the present ; either way the distance between ...
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... future are simply differences of perspective. If someone in Australiasays "It's sunny here," they are saying something true if it is sunny at the place where they are speaking; likewise for someone in New Zealand who says "It's raining ...
... future are simply differences of perspective. If someone in Australiasays "It's sunny here," they are saying something true if it is sunny at the place where they are speaking; likewise for someone in New Zealand who says "It's raining ...
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... future is open: what it will bring is as yet undetermined. If the Block view is true this is wrong, for the future is just as real, solid and immutable as the past. How our lives will unfold from now until the moment of our deaths is ...
... future is open: what it will bring is as yet undetermined. If the Block view is true this is wrong, for the future is just as real, solid and immutable as the past. How our lives will unfold from now until the moment of our deaths is ...
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