The Oxford handbook of philosophy of time

The Oxford handbook of philosophy of time / edited by Craig Callender.

This is a comprehensive book on the philosophy of time. Leading philosophers discuss the metaphysics of time, our experience and representation of time, the role of time in ethics and action, and philosophical issues in the sciences of time, especially quantum mechanics and relativity theory.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Callender, Craig, 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Series:Oxford handbooks in philosophy.
Subjects:
Time > Philosophy.
Time > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Craig Callender
  • PART I: TIME AND METAPHYSICS
  • Persistence / Yuri Balashov
  • Fatalism and the future / Craig Bourne
  • Time and chance propensities / Carl Hoefer
  • Time and Modality / Ulrich Meyer
  • Presentism / M. Joshua Mozersky
  • The Possibility of Discrete Time / Jean Paul Van Bendegem
  • Presentism and the Space-Time Manifold / Dean Zimmerman
  • PART II: THE DIRECTION OF TIME
  • The Asymmetry of Influence / Douglas Kutach
  • The Flow of Time / Huw Price
  • Time in Thermodynamics / Jill North
  • PART III: TIME, ETHICS, AND EXPERIENCE
  • Prospects for Temporal Neutrality / David O. Brink
  • Time, Passage, and Immediate Experience / Barry Dainton
  • Time in Action / Shaun Gallagher
  • Time in Cognitive Development / Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack
  • Temporal Experience / Jenann Ismael
  • PART IV: TIME IN CLASSICAL AND RELATIVISTIC PHYSICS
  • Sharpening the Electromagnetic Arrow(s) of Time / John Earman
  • Time, Topology, and the Twin Paradox / Jean-Pierre Luminet
  • Time in the Special Theory of Relativity / Steven Savitt
  • Time in Classical Dynamics / Lawrence Sklar
  • Time Travel and Time Machines / Chris Smeenk, Christian Wuthrich
  • PART V: TIME IN A QUANTUM WORLD
  • The CPT Theorem / Frank Arntzenius
  • Time in Quantum Mechanics / Jan Hilgevoord, David Atkinson
  • Time in Quantum Gravity / Claus Kiefer.

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