Craig Callender (ed.)

Time, Reality and Experience

Herausgeber: Callender, Craig; Craig, Callender

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Produktbeschreibung

Why does time seem to flow in one direction? Can we influence the past? Is only the present real? Does relativity conflict with our common understanding of time? How does time relate to free will? Could science do away with time? These questions and others about time are among the most puzzling problems in philosophy and science. In this exciting collection of original articles, eminent philosophers propose novel answers to these and other questions. Based on the latest research in philosophy and physics, these essays will be enjoyable to anyone with a speculative turn of mind.

Table of contents:
1. When time gets off track Jan Faye; 2. Burbury's Last Case: The Mystery of the Entropic Arrow Huw Price; 3. Zeno's Arrow and the significance of the present Robin Le Poidevin; 4. Presentism, ontology and temporal experience L. Nathan Oaklander; 5. A presentist's refutation of Mellor's McTaggart Philip Percival; 6. Time and degrees of existence: a theory of 'Degree Presentism' Quentin Smith; 7. McTaggart and the truth about time Heather Dyke; 8. On absolute becoming and the myth of passage Steven F. Savitt; 9. Time travel and modern physics Frank Arntzenius and Tim Maudlin; 10. Freedom from the inside out Carl Hoefer; 11. On stages, worms and relativity Yuri Balashov; 12. On becoming, cosmic time and rotating universes Mauro Dorato; 13. How relativity contradicts presentism Simon Saunders; 14. Can physics coherently deny the reality of time? Richard Healey; 15. Remembrances, mementos, and time-capsules Jenann Ismael. Yuri Balashov

Can we influence the past? Is only the present real? In this exciting collection of original articles, eminent philosophers discuss these and other questions about time. Based on the latest research in philosophy and physics, these essays will be enjoyable to anyone with a speculative turn of mind.

Collection of original essays by leading philosophers on a range of questions about time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780521529679
• ISBN-10: 0521529670
• Artikelnr.: 21719860

Inhaltsangabe

1. When time gets off track Jan Faye
2. Burbury's Last Case: The Mystery of the Entropic Arrow Huw Price
3. Zeno's Arrow and the significance of the present Robin Le Poidevin
4. Presentism, ontology and temporal experience L. Nathan Oaklander
5. A presentist's refutation of Mellor's McTaggart Philip Percival
6. Time and degrees of existence: a theory of 'Degree Presentism' Quentin Smith
7. McTaggart and the truth about time Heather Dyke
8. On absolute becoming and the myth of passage Steven F. Savitt
9. Time travel and modern physics Frank Arntzenius and Tim Maudlin
10. Freedom from the inside out Carl Hoefer
11. On stages, worms and relativity Yuri Balashov
12. On becoming, cosmic time and rotating universes Mauro Dorato
13. How relativity contradicts presentism Simon Saunders
14. Can physics coherently deny the reality of time? Richard Healey
15. Remembrances, mementos, and time-capsules Jenann Ismael.