The Arguments of Time
Published on 9. March 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
270 pages
978-0-19-726346-4 (ISBN)
Description
These nine essays, commissioned on the initiative of the Philosophy section of the British Academy, address fundamental questions about time in philosophy, physics, linguistics, and psychology. Are there facts about the future? Could we affect the past? In physics, general relativity and quantum theory give contradictory treatments of time. So in the current search for a theory of quantum gravity, which should give way: general relativity or quantum theory? In linguistics and psychology, how does our language represent time, and how do our minds keep track of it?
Reviews / Votes
Review from previous edition The book consists of nine excellent but separate essays on various aspects of time ... It serves as an admirable introduction to recent work on what the editor rightly calls 'a controversial topic in present-day fundamental physics'. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics Jeremy Butterfield is to be congratulated for soliciting and editing provocative contributions from distinguished scholars with such varied backgrounds and perspectives. British Journal for the Philosopphy of Science ... original and outstanding in quality ... a significant contnribution to the philosophy of time. Of the recent anthologies in philosophy of time, this one is by far my favorite. Philosophy of ScienceMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Scholars and students of philosophy, quantum physics, linguistics, and psychology.
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
13 figures
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-726346-4 (9780197263464)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Edited by Jeremy Butterfield, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy
Contributors: John Lucas, formerly of University of Oxford Michael Tooley, University of Colorado at Boulder Gregory Currie, Flinders University Roberto Torretti, University of Puerto Rico Julian Barbour, independent theoretical physicist Jeremy Butterfield, FBA, University of OXford Chris Isham, Imperial College, London Karel Kuchar, University of Utah James Higginbotham, FBA, University of Oxford Michel Treisman, University of Oxford
Contributors: John Lucas, formerly of University of Oxford Michael Tooley, University of Colorado at Boulder Gregory Currie, Flinders University Roberto Torretti, University of Puerto Rico Julian Barbour, independent theoretical physicist Jeremy Butterfield, FBA, University of OXford Chris Isham, Imperial College, London Karel Kuchar, University of Utah James Higginbotham, FBA, University of Oxford Michel Treisman, University of Oxford
Content
A Century of Time
The Metaphysics of Time
Can There be a Literary Philosophy of Time?
On Relativity, Time Reckoning and the Topology of Time Series
The Development of Machian Themes in the Twentieth Century
On the Emergence of Time in Quantum Gravity
The Problem of Time in Quantum Geometrodynamics
Tense, Indexicality and Consequence
The Perception of Time: Philosophical Views and Psychological Evidence
The Metaphysics of Time
Can There be a Literary Philosophy of Time?
On Relativity, Time Reckoning and the Topology of Time Series
The Development of Machian Themes in the Twentieth Century
On the Emergence of Time in Quantum Gravity
The Problem of Time in Quantum Geometrodynamics
Tense, Indexicality and Consequence
The Perception of Time: Philosophical Views and Psychological Evidence