Time and SpaceRoutledge, 15 Απρ 2016 - 448 σελίδες The 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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... hence the present) establishes the Block view of time beyond all doubt, but this is not so. There are dynamic models that are compatible with the special theory, and while these models have some counterintuitive consequences, so, too ...
... hence the present) establishes the Block view of time beyond all doubt, but this is not so. There are dynamic models that are compatible with the special theory, and while these models have some counterintuitive consequences, so, too ...
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... Hence I came to the conclusion that the omission was justifiable; remedying it would have made a long work even longer, and sacrificing relativity was never an option. Quantum theory does, however, make an occasional unsystematic ...
... Hence I came to the conclusion that the omission was justifiable; remedying it would have made a long work even longer, and sacrificing relativity was never an option. Quantum theory does, however, make an occasional unsystematic ...
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... hence yet a further temporal dimension, and so on, endlessly. Second. response: other. worlds. Instead of positing additional dimensions of time, the A-theorist might seek to overcome the overdetermination problem by positing additional ...
... hence yet a further temporal dimension, and so on, endlessly. Second. response: other. worlds. Instead of positing additional dimensions of time, the A-theorist might seek to overcome the overdetermination problem by positing additional ...
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... hence in ways which make it seem to miss the point of the passage of time as a 'dynamic' process" (1991: 4). Modal realism is an extreme and highly controversial view of modality. Let us suppose, as many do, that modal actualism is true ...
... hence in ways which make it seem to miss the point of the passage of time as a 'dynamic' process" (1991: 4). Modal realism is an extreme and highly controversial view of modality. Let us suppose, as many do, that modal actualism is true ...
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... hence that times and events cannot be created or annihilated, McTaggart is guilty of begging the question against those dynamic conceptions of time that maintain the opposite. In effect, his starting premise is that the world is ...
... hence that times and events cannot be created or annihilated, McTaggart is guilty of begging the question against those dynamic conceptions of time that maintain the opposite. In effect, his starting premise is that the world is ...
Περιεχόμενα
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