Time and SpaceRoutledge, 15.04.2016 - 448 Seiten 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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... direction of time 4.2 Content-asymmetries: a fuller picture 4.3 Entropy 4.4 The causal route 4.5 Causation in question 4.6 Time in reverse 4.7 Fundamental forks 5 Tensed time 5.1 Tense versus dynamism 5.2 Taking tense seriously 5.3 Mc.
... direction of time 4.2 Content-asymmetries: a fuller picture 4.3 Entropy 4.4 The causal route 4.5 Causation in question 4.6 Time in reverse 4.7 Fundamental forks 5 Tensed time 5.1 Tense versus dynamism 5.2 Taking tense seriously 5.3 Mc.
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... causal and structural properties (e.g. the shape, size and mass of an electron, how an electron reacts with other particles), we have no knowledge of their non-structural intrinsic properties (e.g. what the intrinsic nature of an ...
... causal and structural properties (e.g. the shape, size and mass of an electron, how an electron reacts with other particles), we have no knowledge of their non-structural intrinsic properties (e.g. what the intrinsic nature of an ...
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... causal consequence of her preceding condition. More generally, if O at t2 is numerically identical with O at t1 , then O at t2 must be causally dependent upon O at t1 , directly or indirectly. Since causation operates over time, but not ...
... causal consequence of her preceding condition. More generally, if O at t2 is numerically identical with O at t1 , then O at t2 must be causally dependent upon O at t1 , directly or indirectly. Since causation operates over time, but not ...
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... Causal asymmetry : some events are causes of others ; causes usually occur earlier than their effects . • • Fork asymmetry : it is very common to find many later events that are correlated with ( or caused by ) a single earlier event ...
... Causal asymmetry : some events are causes of others ; causes usually occur earlier than their effects . • • Fork asymmetry : it is very common to find many later events that are correlated with ( or caused by ) a single earlier event ...
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... causal. route. Of the various ways of explaining the content-asymmetries available to the B-theorist, there is one that stands out by virtue of its straightforward simplicity: the causal approach. Consider again the footstep we see on the ...
... causal. route. Of the various ways of explaining the content-asymmetries available to the B-theorist, there is one that stands out by virtue of its straightforward simplicity: the causal approach. Consider again the footstep we see on the ...
Inhalt
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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