The Arguments of Time

Buch | Softcover

270 Seiten

2006
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-726346-4 (ISBN)

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Containing nine essays, this work addresses fundamental questions about time; in philosophy, physics, linguistics, and psychology. It poses questions such as: Are there facts about the future? Could we affect the past? It also discusses, how, in linguistics and psychology, our language represents time and our minds keep track of it.

These nine essays, commissioned on the initiative of the Philosophy section of the British Academy, address fundamental questions about time in philosophy, physics, linguistics, and psychology. Are there facts about the future? Could we affect the past? In physics, general relativity and quantum theory give contradictory treatments of time. So in the current search for a theory of quantum gravity, which should give way: general relativity or quantum theory? In linguistics and psychology, how does our language represent time, and how do our minds keep track of it?

A Century of Time

The Metaphysics of Time

Can There be a Literary Philosophy of Time?

On Relativity, Time Reckoning and the Topology of Time Series

The Development of Machian Themes in the Twentieth Century

On the Emergence of Time in Quantum Gravity

The Problem of Time in Quantum Geometrodynamics

Tense, Indexicality and Consequence

The Perception of Time: Philosophical Views and Psychological Evidence

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.3.2006
Reihe/Serie	British Academy Centenary Monographs
Zusatzinfo	13 figures
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	423 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-726346-1 / 0197263461
ISBN-13	978-0-19-726346-4 / 9780197263464
Zustand	Neuware