Affi Ne
apparent
block
Block Universe
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Category=QDTM
Classical Space Time
Color Phi
Common Sense Intuitions
direction of time
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Equal Ontological Footing
experience
growing
Indiscrete Topology
Le Poidevin
Linear Structure
Linguistic Ersatzism
metaphysics of time
Minkowski Space Time
motion
Moving Spotlight
Neural State
Newtonian Absolute Time
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5
philosophy of physics
present
presentism vs eternalism
Reduc Tionist
relations
Relativistic Space Time
S1 S1
Simultaneity Slices
Specie Aeternitatus
specious
Specious Present
Standard Topology
temporal
temporal experience
temporal ontology
Temporal Passage
Tensed Sentences
Tenseless Sentences
theorist
time perception and free will
Product details
- ISBN 9780415737067
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Nov 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The last century has seen enormous progress in our understanding of time. This volume features original essays by the foremost philosophers of time discussing the goals and methodology of the philosophy of time, and examining the best way to move forward with regard to the field's core issues.
The collection is unique in combining cutting edge work on time with a focus on the big picture of time studies as a discipline. The major questions asked include:
- What are the implications of relativity and quantum physics on our understanding of time?
- Is the passage of time real, or just a subjective phenomenon?
- Are the past and future real, or is the present all that exists?
- If the future is real and unchanging (as contemporary physics seems to suggest), how is free will possible?
- Since only the present moment is perceived, how does the experience as we know it come about? How does experience take on its character of a continuous flow of moments or events?
- What explains the apparent one-way direction of time?
- Is time travel a logical/metaphysical possibility?
Adrian Bardon is an associate professor of philosophy at Wake Forest University. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and is the author of the forthcoming book A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time.
