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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... motion 11.1 Inertial motion 11.2 The argument for real inertial motions 11.3 The argument from inertial effects 11.4 Stalemate? 11.5 The Leibnizian response 11.6 The Machian response 11.7 The Sklar response 12 Motion in spacetime 12.1 ...
... motion 11.1 Inertial motion 11.2 The argument for real inertial motions 11.3 The argument from inertial effects 11.4 Stalemate? 11.5 The Leibnizian response 11.6 The Machian response 11.7 The Sklar response 12 Motion in spacetime 12.1 ...
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... motion , and Zeno's paradoxes raise serious questions about how motion can occur , even though we are confident that it does . These same paradoxes are also closely bound up with various issues relating to infinite divisibility and the ...
... motion , and Zeno's paradoxes raise serious questions about how motion can occur , even though we are confident that it does . These same paradoxes are also closely bound up with various issues relating to infinite divisibility and the ...
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... motion, the main protagonists being Descartes, Galileo, Leibniz and Newton (with the latter pair having starring roles). This historical detour provides a change of atmosphere after the largely a priori investigation into time, but is ...
... motion, the main protagonists being Descartes, Galileo, Leibniz and Newton (with the latter pair having starring roles). This historical detour provides a change of atmosphere after the largely a priori investigation into time, but is ...
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... motion consists of moving on to pre-existing spatial locations; if motion consists instead of an object changing its spatial relations to other objects, what is to prevent an object from moving ever further from other objects? And so it ...
... motion consists of moving on to pre-existing spatial locations; if motion consists instead of an object changing its spatial relations to other objects, what is to prevent an object from moving ever further from other objects? And so it ...
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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