Overview

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.

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Author:   Craig Callender (University of California)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.212kg
ISBN:  

9780199679553

ISBN 10:   019967955
Pages:   704
Publication Date:   05 September 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Craig Callender: Introduction I: TIME AND METAPHYSICS 1: Yuri Balashov: Persistence 2: Craig Bourne: Fatalism and the Future 3: Carl Hoefer: Time and Chance Propensities 4: Ulrich Meyer: Tense and Modality 5: M. Joshua Mozersky: Presentism 6: Jean Paul Van Bendegem: The Possibility of Discrete Time 7: Dean Zimmerman: Presentism and the Space-Time Manifold II: THE DIRECTION OF TIME 8: Douglas Kutach: The Asymmetry of Influence 9: Huw Price: The Flow of Time 10: Jill North: Time in Thermodynamics III: TIME, ETHICS, AND EXPERIENCE 11: David O. Brink: Prospects for Temporal Neutrality 12: Barry Dainton: Time, Passage, and Immediate Experience 13: Shaun Gallagher: Time in Action 14: Christoph Hoerl and Teresa McCormack: Time in Cognitive Development 15: Jenann Ismael: Temporal Experience IV: TIME IN CLASSICAL AND RELATIVISTIC PHYSICS 16: John Earman: Sharpening the Electromagnetic Arrow(s) of Time 17: Jean-Pierre Luminet: Time, Topology, and the Twin Paradox 18: Steven Savitt: Time in the Special Theory of Relativity 19: Lawrence Sklar: Time in Classical Dynamics 20: Chris Smeenk and Christian Wüthrich: Time Travel and Time Machines V: TIME IN A QUANTUM WORLD 21: Frank Arntzenius: The CPT Theorem 22: Jan Hilgevoord and David Atkinson: Time in Quantum Mechanics 23: Claus Kiefer: Time in Quantum Gravity Index

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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).

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