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Title:
The Oxford handbook of philosophy of time / edited by Craig Callender.
Author:
Callender, Craig, 1968- editor.
Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Call Number:
BD638 .O94 2013
Abstract:
"As the study of time has flourished in the physical and human sciences, the philosophy of time has come into its own as a lively and diverse area of academic research. Philosophers investigate not just the metaphysics of time, and our experience and representation of time, but the role of time in ethics and action, and philosophical issues in the sciences of time, especially with regard to quantum mechanics and relativity theory. This Handbook presents twenty-three specially written essays by leading figures in their fields: it is the first comprehensive collaborative study of the philosophy of time, and will set the agenda for future work."--Provided by Publisher.
ISBN:
9780199679553
Series:
Oxford handbooks in philosophy

Oxford handbooks in philosophy.
Physical Description:
xiv, 689 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
General Note:
Originally published in hardback by Oxford University Press in 2011.
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Contents:
Introduction / Craig Callender -- I: TIME AND METAPHYSICS -- 1. Persistence / Yuri Balashov -- 2. Fatalism and the Future / Craig Bourne -- 3. Time and Chance Propensities / Carl Hoefer -- 4. Time and Modality / Ulrich Meyer -- 5. Presentism / M. Joshua Mozersky -- 6. The Possibility of Discrete Time / Jean Paul Van Bendegem -- 7. Presentism and the Space-Time Manifold / Dean Zimmerman -- II: THE DIRECTION OF TIME -- 8. The Asymmetry of Influence / Douglas Kutach -- 9. The Flow of Time / Huw Price -- 10. Time in Thermodynamics / Jill North -- III: TIME, ETHICS, AND EXPERIENCE -- 11. Prospects for Temporal Neutrality / David O. Brink -- 12. Time, Passage, and Immediate Experience / Barry Dainton -- 13. Time in Action / Shaun Gallagher -- 14. Time in Cognitive Development / Christoph Hoerl and Teresa McCormack -- 15. Temporal Experience / Jenann Ismael -- IV: TIME IN CLASSICAL AND RELATIVISTIC PHYSICS -- 16. Sharpening the Electromagnetic Arrow(s) of Time / John Earman -- 17. Time, Topology, and the Twin Paradox / Jean-Pierre Luminet -- 18. Time in the Special Theory of Relativity / Steven Savitt -- 19. Time in Classical Dynamics / Lawrence Sklar -- 20. Time Travel and Time Machines / Chris Smeenk and Christian Wuthrich -- V: TIME IN A QUANTUM WORLD -- 21. The CPT Theorem / Frank Arntzenius -- 22. Time in Quantum Mechanics / Jan Hilgevoord and David Atkinson -- 23. Time in Quantum Gravity / Claus Kiefer.
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