This is the first 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. INDICE: Craig Callender: Introduction; I: TIME AND METAPHYSICS; 1: Yuri Balashov: Persistence; 2: Craig Bourne: Fatalism and the Future; 3: Carl Hoefer:Time and Chance Propensities; 4: Ulrich Meyer: Tense and Modality; 5: M. Joshua Mozersky: Presentism; 6: Jean Paul Van Bendegem: The Possibility of Discrete Time; 7: Dean Zimmerman: Presentism and the Space-Time Manifold; II: THE DIRECTION OF TIME; 8: Douglas Kutach: The Asymmetry of Influence; 9: Huw Price: The Flow of Time; 10: Jill North: Time in Thermodynamics; III: TIME, ETHICS, AND EXPERIENCE; 11: David O. Brink: Prospects for Temporal Neutrality; 12: BarryDainton: Time, Passage, and Immediate Experience; 13: Shaun Gallagher: Time in Action; 14: Christoph Hoerl and Teresa McCormack: Time in Cognitive Development; 15: Jenann Ismael: Temporal Experience; IV: TIME IN CLASSICAL AND RELATIVISTIC PHYSICS; 16: John Earman: Sharpening the Electromagnetic Arrow(s) of Time; 17: Jean-Pierre Luminet: Time, Topology, and the Twin Paradox; 18: Steven Savitt: Time in the Special Theory of Relativity; 19: Lawrence Sklar: Time in Classical Dynamics; 20: Chris Smeenk and Christian Wüthrich: Time Travel and Time Machines; V: TIME IN A QUANTUM WORLD; 21: Frank Arntzenius: The CPT Theorem; 22: Jan Hilgevoord and David Atkinson: Time in Quantum Mechanics; 23: Claus Kiefer: Time in Quantum Gravity; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-929820-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 704
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés