The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time

As the study of time has flourished in the physical and human sciences, the philosophy of time has come into its own as a lively and diverse area of academic research. Philosophers investigate not just the metaphysics of time, and our experience and representation of time, but the role of time in ethics and action, and philosophical issues in the sciences of time, especially with regard to quantum mechanics and relativity theory. This Handbook presents twenty-three specially written essays by leading figures in their fields: it is the first comprehensive collaborative study of the philosophy of time, and will set the agenda for future work.

List of contents

• Introduction


• I: TIME AND METAPHYSICS


• 1: Yuri Balashov: Persistence


• 2: Craig Bourne: Fatalism and the Future


• 3: Carl Hoefer: Time and Chance Propensities


• 4: Ulrich Meyer: Tense and Modality


• 5: M. Joshua Mozersky: Presentism


• 6: Jean Paul Van Bendegem: The Possibility of Discrete Time


• 7: Dean Zimmerman: Presentism and the Space-Time Manifold


• II: THE DIRECTION OF TIME


• 8: Douglas Kutach: The Asymmetry of Influence


• 9: Huw Price: The Flow of Time


• 10: Jill North: Time in Thermodynamics


• III: TIME, ETHICS, AND EXPERIENCE


• 11: David O. Brink: Prospects for Temporal Neutrality


• 12: Barry Dainton: Time, Passage, and Immediate Experience


• 13: Shaun Gallagher: Time in Action


• 14: Christoph Hoerl and Teresa McCormack: Time in Cognitive Development


• 15: Jenann Ismael: Temporal Experience


• IV: TIME IN CLASSICAL AND RELATIVISTIC PHYSICS


• 16: John Earman: Sharpening the Electromagnetic Arrow(s) of Time


• 17: Jean-Pierre Luminet: Time, Topology, and the Twin Paradox


• 18: Steven Savitt: Time in the Special Theory of Relativity


• 19: Lawrence Sklar: Time in Classical Dynamics


• 20: Chris Smeenk and Christian Wüthrich: Time Travel and Time Machines


• V: TIME IN A QUANTUM WORLD


• 21: Frank Arntzenius: The CPT Theorem


• 22: Jan Hilgevoord and David Atkinson: Time in Quantum Mechanics


• 23: Claus Kiefer: Time in Quantum Gravity


• Index

Product details

• Authors: Craig Callender, Craig (University of California) Callender
• Assisted by: Craig Callender (Editor), Callender Craig (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2013
• EAN: 9780199679553
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967955-3
• No. of pages: 704
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 245 mm x 36 mm
• Series: Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy; Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory)