The arguments of time
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The arguments of time
Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2006
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"First published 1999. Paperback edition 2006"--T.p. verso
"... preparing a volume in their discipline to commemorate the Academy's centenary in 2002"--Pref
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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?
Table of Contents
- 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
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