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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Huw Price (Reader in Philosophy, Reader in Philosophy, University of Sydney, Australia)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 24.30cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 16.50cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9780195100952ISBN 10: 0195100956 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 04 July 1996 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Preface ; 1. The View from Nowhen ; 2. ""More Apt to be Lost than Got"" - the Lesson of the Second Law ; 3. New Light on the Arrow of Radiation ; 4. Arrows and Errors in Contemporary Cosmology ; 5. Innocence and Symmetry in Microphysics ; 6. In Search of the Third Arrow ; 7. Convention Objectified, and the Past Unlocked ; 8. Einstein's Issue - the Puzzle of Contemporary Quantum Theory ; 9. The Case for Advanced Action ; Overview ; Bibliography ; Notes"ReviewsPrice is a philosopher with a real grasp of fundamental physics. He offers an original slant on some profound issues, where our understanding has advanced little since the time of St Augustine. His book is not an easy read, but should trigger lively debate about whether he has introduced new paradoxes as stubborn as those he claims to exorcise. * The Times * ...Price's book is a useful addition to the literature on time, particularly as it reveals the influence of modern science on the way a philosopher thinks. * New Scientist * ' ...he has taken a subject understood by a few experts and thrown open the door to the masses. Take it with a pinch of salt, perhaps; but do take it, and enjoy it as a feast for the imagination. * The Sunday Times * splendidly provocative book. * Sunday Times * `In this challenging book, Price applies critical reasoning and penetrating insight to the current theories of physics and cosmology that have a bearing on this problem.' Paul Davies, Professor of Natural Philosophy, The University of Adelaide, and author of About Time and The Physics of Time Asymmetry `... a thoughtful (and thought-provoking) analysis of the time-asymmetry problem of physics which is in many ways deeper and more illuminating than accounts to be found elsewhere.' Roger Penrose, Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford, and author of Shadows of the Mind and The Emperor's New Mind An attempt to grapple with the ... problems of the arrow of time with a high degree of analytical care, John D. Barrow, Nature 383, 228 (1996) if words like entropy and nonlocality get your synapses buzzing then you'll find Price's analysis very stimulating indeed, even if you don't go along with his controversial conclusions * Scotland on Sunday * the treatment is wide-ranging and substantial. The discussion is carefully signposted and chapters contain point-by-point summaries of the argument and the author's principal conclusions. * Nature * philosophically well presented book ... For anyone who has read just the odd book on the nature of time and cosmological questions this is the ideal book to read next to find a fairer, less partial exploration of other thinkers in the field, and the too often neglected gratitude that the modern celebrity scientists have given them ... The Philosophers verdict: Praiseworthy, all round. * The Philosopher Vol 87 no 2 * The book is a tour de force. Price addresses some of the most difficult issues in physics and philosophy, and offers highly original solutions. Yet the book is written in a style which assumes no previous knowledge, and will be accessible to any reader who is prepared to think hard. In the course of his book, he makes real progress with the direction of time. If he leaves us with a new problem at the end, this only testifies to the number of old problems he has resolved along the way. * TLS * This work is teeming with fresh insights and may be fairly said to light the fires of our imagination. It is a work that deserves to be widely read and to have a place in every science library. * Dennis H. Rouvray, Endeavour, Vol. 20, no. 4, 1996 * Huw Price's book is a significant contribution, remarkable in its scope. """Particularly illuminating in that Price shows how philosophers and physicists have failed to see temporal symmetries because of the influence of their own temporally asymmetric perspective.... A real advance in the interpretation of quantum mechanics. Not only philosophy of science but theoretical physicists should be excited about by this lovely book.""--J.J.C. Smart, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University" Particularly illuminating in that Price shows how philosophers and physicists have failed to see temporal symmetries because of the influence of their own temporally asymmetric perspective.... A real advance in the interpretation of quantum mechanics. Not only philosophy of science but theoretical physicists should be excited about by this lovely book. --J.J.C. Smart, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University<br> Author InformationAbout the Author: Huw Price is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Facts and the Function of Truth (1988) and a wide range of articles in leading journals such as The Journal of Philosophy, Mind, and Nature. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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