Bede Rundle

Time, Space, and Metaphysics

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Produktbeschreibung

Bede Rundle presents a philosophical investigation of the nature and reality of time and space, by means of analysis of the concepts involved. He discusses anti-realism, time travel, temporal parts, geometry, convention, and infinity, and more general issues concerning identity, objectivity, causation, facts, and verifiability.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780199575114
• ISBN-10: 0199575118
• Artikelnr.: 27961061

Autorenporträt

Bede Rundle is an Emeritus Fellow in Philosophy at Trinity College, Oxford. Educated in New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington and at Oxford, he has been a Junior Research Fellow at the Queen's College, Oxford, and has held visiting appointments in North America.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Conceptions of Time and Space
2: Time, Order, and Direction
3: Time and Tense
4: Observer-Dependence
5: The Past
6: The Future
7: Grammar and Ontology
8: Equality of time intervals
9: Temporal asymmetries
10: Space
11: Time and Change
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