
Perspectives on Time
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published on 30. November 1996
Book
Hardback
VIII, 472 pages
978-0-7923-4330-1 (ISBN)
Description
Perspectives on Time
deals with the problem of time from different perspectives such as logic, physics and philosophy. It contains 18 previously unpublished papers, written by philosophers from various European countries, as well as a large introduction about the history and the main situation in the respective fields today. The prominent issues which are addressed in this book concern the direction of time, the reality of tenses, the objectivity of becoming, the existence in time, and the logical structures of reasoning about time. The papers have been written based on different approaches, partly depending on whether the authors subscribe to an A-theory or a B-theory of time.
Audience: Due to the broad variety of approaches the book contains important contributions both for philosophers, philosophers of science, logicians and for scientists working in the field of language and AI.
Audience: Due to the broad variety of approaches the book contains important contributions both for philosophers, philosophers of science, logicians and for scientists working in the field of language and AI.
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Series
Edition
1997 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
VIII, 472 p.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
848 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7923-4330-1 (9780792343301)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-015-8875-1
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Content
I: The Philosophy of Time.- Three Views on the Relationship Between Time and Reality.- On Now-Ambiguities.- The Objectivity of Time-Flux and the Direction of Time.- Fleeting Things and Permanent Stuff: A Priorean Project in Real Time.- Existence in Time: From Substance to Process.- Direction of Time: A Problem of Ontology, not of Physics.- Tense and Existence.- II: The Physics of Time.- Do Times Exist?.- Is the Mark Method Time Dependent?.- Causation, Reversibility and the Direction of Time.- The Physical Worldview and the Reality of Becoming.- III: The Logic of Time.- Relations between Sets of Time Points and Quasi-Linear Orderings.- Linguistic and Tense Logical Considerations on the Generality of a Three-Point Structure of Tenses.- Time, Truth and Existence.- Dimensions of Time.- Time and Negation.- A New Tempo-Modal Logic for Emerging Truth.- A. N. Prior's Ideas on the Relation Between Semantics and Axiomatics for Temporal Logic.- Name Index.