Perspectives on Time

Perspectives on Time edited by Jan Faye, Uwe Scheffler, Max Urchs.

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 It contains 18 previously unpublished papers, written by philosophers from various European countries, as well as a large introduction about the history and the main situation in th...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Faye, Jan (Editor), Scheffler, Uwe (Editor), Urchs, Max (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
Edition:1st ed. 1997.
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 189
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Logic.
Metaphysics.
Language and languages—Philosophy.
Ontology.
Philosophy and science.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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