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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... material objects , spatiotemporal relations and nothing else . Figure 1.1 illustrates the difference between these ... material objects is far from empty : it is filled by an extended ( if invisible ) entity . Relationists reject this ...
... material objects , spatiotemporal relations and nothing else . Figure 1.1 illustrates the difference between these ... material objects is far from empty : it is filled by an extended ( if invisible ) entity . Relationists reject this ...
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... material shell and nothing else. If all the air within an otherwise empty box is removed, the walls of the box are ... objects in the way that an ocean contains the solid things that float within it. It is plain that the verdict we reach ...
... material shell and nothing else. If all the air within an otherwise empty box is removed, the walls of the box are ... objects in the way that an ocean contains the solid things that float within it. It is plain that the verdict we reach ...
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... Material objects are distributed through an extended medium composed of spacetime points . Since one spatial dimension has been suppressed , each two - dimensional slice of the block represents a three - dimensional volume of space ...
... Material objects are distributed through an extended medium composed of spacetime points . Since one spatial dimension has been suppressed , each two - dimensional slice of the block represents a three - dimensional volume of space ...
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... material things, although we know quite a lot about their causal and structural properties (e.g. the shape, size and ... objects involved undergo changes. To simplify, let us return to the idea that there is a single intrinsic property of " ...
... material things, although we know quite a lot about their causal and structural properties (e.g. the shape, size and ... objects involved undergo changes. To simplify, let us return to the idea that there is a single intrinsic property of " ...
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... material objects seem to be different. While a typical person such as Alice has various spatial parts (her hands, feet, bones, organs, etc.), it seems wrong to think she has temporal parts in the same way as a battle. Alice exists now ...
... material objects seem to be different. While a typical person such as Alice has various spatial parts (her hands, feet, bones, organs, etc.), it seems wrong to think she has temporal parts in the same way as a battle. Alice exists now ...
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