Rövid leírás:
These nine essays address fundamental questions about time in philosophy, physics, linguistics, and psychology. Are there facts about the future? Could we affect the past? In physics, general relativity and quantum theory give contradictory treatments of time. So in the current search for a theory of quantum gravity, which should give way: general relativity or quantum theory? In linguistics and psychology, how does our language represent time, and how do our minds keep track of it?
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Hosszú leírás:
These nine essays, commissioned on the initiative of the Philosophy section of the British Academy, address fundamental questions about time in philosophy, physics, linguistics, and psychology. Are there facts about the future? Could we affect the past? In physics, general relativity and quantum theory give contradictory treatments of time. So in the current search for a theory of quantum gravity, which should give way: general relativity or quantum theory? In linguistics and psychology, how does our language represent time, and how do our minds keep track of it?
Review from previous edition The book consists of nine excellent but separate essays on various aspects of time . . . It serves as an admirable introduction to recent work on what the editor rightly calls ‘a controversial topic in present-day fundamental physics’.
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Tartalomjegyzék:
A Century of Time
The Metaphysics of Time
Can There be a Literary Philosophy of Time?
On Relativity, Time Reckoning and the Topology of Time Series
The Development of Machian Themes in the Twentieth Century
On the Emergence of Time in Quantum Gravity
The Problem of Time in Quantum Geometrodynamics
Tense, Indexicality and Consequence
The Perception of Time: Philosophical Views and Psychological Evidence
