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E-grāmata: Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time [Oxford Handbooks Online E-books]

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  • Formāts: 704 pages
  • Sērija : Oxford Handbooks
  • Izdošanas datums: 07-Apr-2011
  • Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-13: 9780191728372
  • Oxford Handbooks Online E-books
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  • Formāts: 704 pages
  • Sērija : Oxford Handbooks
  • Izdošanas datums: 07-Apr-2011
  • Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-13: 9780191728372
As the study of time has flourished in the physical and human sciences, the philosophy of time has come into its own as a lively and diverse area of academic research. Philosophers investigate not just the metaphysics of time, and our experience and representation of time, but the role of time in ethics and action, and philosophical issues in the sciences of time, especially with regard to quantum mechanics and relativity theory. This Handbook presents twenty-three specially written essays by leading figures in their fields: it is the first comprehensive collaborative study of the philosophy of time, and will set the agenda for future work.
List of Figures
viii
List of Contributors
xi
Introduction 1(12)
Craig Callender
PART I TIME AND METAPHYSICS
1 Persistence
13(28)
Yuri Balashov
2 Fatalism and the Future
41(27)
Craig Bourne
3 Time and Chance Propensities
68(23)
Carl Hoefer
4 Time, and Modality
91(31)
Ulrich Meyer
5 Presentism
122(23)
M. Joshua Mozersky
6 The Possibility of Discrete Time
145(18)
Jean Paul Van Bendegem
7 Presentism and the Space-Time Manifold
163(84)
Dean Zimmerman
PART II THE DIRECTION OF TIME
8 The Asymmetry of Influence
247(29)
Douglas Kutach
9 The Flow of Time
276(36)
Huw Price
10 Time in Thermodynamics
312(41)
Jill North
PART III TIME, ETHICS, AND EXPERIENCE
11 Prospects for Temporal Neutrality
353(29)
David O. Brink
12 Time, Passage, and Immediate Experience
382(38)
Barry Dainton
13 Time in Action
420(19)
Shaun Gallagher
14 Time in Cognitive Development
439(21)
Christoph Hoerl
Teresa McCormack
15 Temporal Experience
460(25)
Jenann Ismael
PART IV TIME IN CLASSICAL AND RELATIVISTIC PHYSICS
16 Sharpening the Electromagnetic Arrow(s) of Time
485(43)
John Earman
17 Time, Topology, and the Twin Paradox
528(18)
Jean-Pierre Luminet
18 Time in the Special Theory of Relativity
546(25)
Steven Savitt
19 Time in Classical Dynamics
571(6)
Lawrence Sklar
20 Time Travel and Time Machines
577(56)
Chris Smeenk
Christian Wuthrich
PART V TIME IN A QUANTUM WORLD
21 The CPT Theorem
633(14)
Frank Arntzenius
22 Time in Quantum Mechanics
647(16)
Jan Hilgevoord
David Atkinson
23 Time in Quantum Gravity
663(16)
Claus Kiefer
Index 679
Craig Callender is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale (2001), Time, Reality and Experience (2002) and Introducing Time (2010).