Overview

Why does time pass and space does not? Are there just three dimensions? What is a quantum particle? Nick Huggett shows that philosophy -- armed with a power to analyze fundamental concepts and their relationship to the human experience -- has much to say about these profound questions about the universe. In Everywhere and Everywhen, Huggett charts a journey that peers into some of the oldest questions about the world, through some of the newest, such as: What shape is space? Does it have an edge? What is the difference between past and future? What is time in relativity? Is time travel possible? Are there other universes? Huggett shows that answers to these profound questions are not just reserved for physics, and that philosophy can not only address but help advance our view of our deepest questions about the universe, space, and time, and their implications for humanity. His lively, accessible introduction to these topics is suitable for a general reader with no previous exposure to these profound and exciting questions.

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Author:   Nick Huggett (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Illionois Chicago)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780195379518

ISBN 10:   0195379519
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   18 February 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"1. A Longish Introduction: The Problem of Change 1.1: Melissus's Paradox 1.2: What is Change? 1.3: Laws 1.4: Spacetime Today 2. Zeno's Paradoxes 2.1: The Dichotomy Paradox 2.2: ""Supertasks"" 3. Zeno's Arrow Paradox 3.1: The Paradox 3.2: What Philosophy Can Teach Physics 4. The Shape of Space I-Topology 4.1: An End to Space? 4.2: Neither Bounded Nor Infinite 4.3: What Physics Can Teach Philosophy 5. Beyond the Third Dimension? 5.1: Multi-Dimensional Life 5.2: More Than Three Dimensions? 6. Why Three Dimensions? 6.1: The Force of Gravity and the Dimensions of Space 6.2: Does Intelligent Life Take Three Dimensions? 6.3: Is the Universe Made for Humans? 6.4: The Megaverse; 6.5 7. The Shape of Space II-Curved Space? 7.1: Mathematical Certainty 7.2: Life in Non-Euclidean Geometry 7.3: What Kind of Knowledge is Geometry? 8. Looking For Geometry 8.1: Measuring the Geometry of Space? 8.2: The 'Geometry' of Poincar e's Space 8.3: How to Disprove a Definition 8.4: Experiencing Space: 8.5 9. What is Space? 9.1: Space=Matter 9.2: Relational Space 9.3: Absolute Space 9.4: Relational Space Redux 9.5: What Physics and Philosophy Can Teach Each Other 10. Time 10.1: Time vs. Space 10.2: Nowism 10.3: A Moving Now? 10.4: McTaggart's Argument 10.5: Passing Time in a Block Universe 11. Time and Tralfamadore 11.1: The Mind's Worldline 11.2: Experience of Space vs. Time 11.3: Another Arrow 11.4: Physics and the Philosophy of Perception 12. Time Travel 12.1: What is Time Travel? 12.2: Is Time Travel Possible? 12.3: The Problem with Time Travel 12.4: Possible and Impossible Time Travel 12.5: The Philosophy and Physics of Time Travel 13. Why Can't I Stop my Younger Self from Time Traveling? 13.1: Physics Might Stop Me 13.2: . . . and If Not, Logic Will 13.3: My Precise Physical State Stops Me 13.4: Living in a Physical Universe 14. Spacetime and the Theory of Relativity 14.1: Photons and Bullets 14.2: Convention 14.3: Relativity-When is Now? 14.4: Relativistic Spacetime 14.5: Relativity of Length 14.6: Relativity of Time 15. Time in Relativity 15.1: The Twins 15.2: General Relativity 15.3: Time vs. Space Yet Again 15.4: Einstein's Revolution in Philosophy 16. Hands and Mirrors 16.1: Is Handedness Intrinsic or Extrinsic? 16.2: The 'Fitting' Account 16.3: Kant's Argument against the Fitting Account 16.4: Looking Left and Right 16.5: Mirrors 16.6: Orientability 17. Identity 17.1: Particle Statistics 17.2: Schrodinger's Counting Games 18. Quarticles 18.1: New Counting Games 18.2: Hookon Identity 18.3: Indistinguishable Quarticles? 18.4: Quanta as Quarticles 19. Where Next?"

Reviews

Huggett's writing style is clear and accessible, the examples are plentiful and helpful, and the overall narrative structure of the book is successful, with each chapter leading to the next. --American Journal of Physics

<br> Huggett's writing style is clear and accessible, the examples are plentiful and helpful, and the overall narrative structure of the book is successful, with each chapter leading to the next. --American Journal of Physics<br>

<br> Huggett's writing style is clear and accessible, the examples are plentiful and helpful, and the overall narrative structure of the book is successful, with each chapter leading to the next. --American Journal of Physics<p><br>

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Nick Huggett is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois Chicago.

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