The Arguments of Time

Zusatztext . . . original and outstanding in quality . . . a significant contnribution to the philosophy of time. Of the recent anthologies in philosophy of time! this one is by far my favorite. Klappentext These nine essays, commissioned on the initiative of the Philosophy section of the British Academy, address fundamental questions about time in philosophy, physics, linguistics, and psychology. Are there facts about the future? Could we affect the past? In physics, general relativity and quantum theory give contradictory treatments of time. So in the current search for a theory of quantum gravity, which should give way: general relativity or quantum theory? In linguistics and psychology, how does our language represent time, and how do our minds keep track of it? Contributors include John Lucas, Michael Tooley, Gregory Currie, Roberto Torretti, Julian Barbour, Jeremy Butterfield, Chris Isham, Karel Kuchar, James Higginbotham, and Michel Treisman. Zusammenfassung Containing nine essays, this work addresses fundamental questions about time; in philosophy, physics, linguistics, and psychology. It poses questions such as: Are there facts about the future? Could we affect the past? It also discusses, how, in linguistics and psychology, our language represents time and our minds keep track of it. Inhaltsverzeichnis A Century of Time The Metaphysics of Time Can There be a Literary Philosophy of Time? On Relativity, Time Reckoning and the Topology of Time Series The Development of Machian Themes in the Twentieth Century On the Emergence of Time in Quantum Gravity The Problem of Time in Quantum Geometrodynamics Tense, Indexicality and Consequence The Perception of Time: Philosophical Views and Psychological Evidence

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Butterfield
• Assisted by: Jeremy Butterfield (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.03.2006
• EAN: 9780197263464
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726346-4
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Series: British Academy Centenary Monographs; British Academy Centenary Monographs; British Academy Centenary Mono
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, SCIENCE / History, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Language, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, History of Science, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy