The metaphysics of time : a dialogue

The metaphysics of time : a dialogue / Bradley Dowden.

Seventh in the New Dialogues in Philosophy series, this book discusses the concept of time and shows in the simplest ways how time informs discussions about causality, creation, physics, consciousness of time, and much more. Creating a series of conversations between two fictional characters, Bradle...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dowden, Bradley Harris
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2009.
Series:New dialogues in philosophy.
Subjects:
Time.
time.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Time
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Fatalism, free will, and foreknowledge
  • Mind, the metric, and conventionality
  • Time travel and backward causation
  • Time's origin, and relationism vs. substantivalism
  • McTaggart, tensed facts, and time's flow
  • Presentism, the block universe, and perduring objects
  • The arrow of time
  • Zeno's paradoxes and supertasks.

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