Time's arrows today : recent physical and philosophical work on the direction of time

Time's arrows today : recent physical and philosophical work on the direction of time / edited by Steven F. Savitt.

While it seems manifest in our experience that time flows - from the past to the present moment and into the future, there are a number of philosophical and physical objections to this commonsense view of dynamic time. In the quest to make sense of this conundrum philosophers and physicists confront...

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Corporate Author: 'Time's Arrows Today' Conference
Other Authors: Savitt, Steven Frederick
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995
Subjects:
Time > Philosophy.
Space and time.
Online Access:Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Cosmology and time's arrow. Time, gravity, and quantum mechanics / William Unruh
  • Cosmology, time's arrow, and that old double standard / Huw Price
  • Part II. Quantum theory and time's arrow. Time's arrow and the quantum measurement problem / Anthony Leggett
  • Time, decoherence, and 'reversible' measurements / Philip Stamp
  • Time flow, non-locality, and measurement in quantum mechanics / Storrs McCall
  • Stochastically branching spacetime topology / Roy Douglas
  • Part III. Thermodynamics and time's arrow. The elusive object of desire : in pursuit of the kinetic equations and the Second Law ; Time in experience and in theoretical description of the world / Lawrence Sklar
  • When and why does entropy increase? / Martin Barrett & Elliott Sober
  • Part IV. Time travel and time's arrow. Closed causal chains / Paul Horwich
  • Recent work on time travel / John Earman.

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