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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... matter: it now seems likely that some 95 per cent of the universe's mass and energy is of the mysterious "dark ... matters spatial and temporal. Preface to the first edition Is space an ingredient of.
... matter: it now seems likely that some 95 per cent of the universe's mass and energy is of the mysterious "dark ... matters spatial and temporal. Preface to the first edition Is space an ingredient of.
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... matter how many levels we add. The three predicates: past present future in the present... in the present... in the present... are equivalent to the first-level predicates "past", "present" and "future", so if there is an inconsistency ...
... matter how many levels we add. The three predicates: past present future in the present... in the present... in the present... are equivalent to the first-level predicates "past", "present" and "future", so if there is an inconsistency ...
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... matter of how the object itself is, irrespective of its relationships with other objects. The doctrine that A-properties are intrinsic (or "qualities" in McTaggart's terms) can take different forms. There could be just one intrinsic A ...
... matter of how the object itself is, irrespective of its relationships with other objects. The doctrine that A-properties are intrinsic (or "qualities" in McTaggart's terms) can take different forms. There could be just one intrinsic A ...
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... matter, since there are B-facts, and these could serve as truthmakers for both sorts of statement. This approach is nowadays widely known as the "old tenseless theory", and is generally agreed to fail: A-statements cannot be translated ...
... matter, since there are B-facts, and these could serve as truthmakers for both sorts of statement. This approach is nowadays widely known as the "old tenseless theory", and is generally agreed to fail: A-statements cannot be translated ...
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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