The Arguments of Time - Couverture souple

 
9780197263464: The Arguments of Time
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0197263461 ISBN 13 : 9780197263464
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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?

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Revue de presse

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'. (Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics)

Jeremy Butterfield is to be congratulated for soliciting and editing provocative contributions from distinguished scholars with such varied backgrounds and perspectives. (British Journal for the Philosopphy of Science)

. . . original and outstanding in quality . . . a significant contnribution to the philosophy of time. Of the recent anthologies in philosophy of time, this one is by far my favorite. (Philosophy of Science)

Présentation de l'éditeur

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?

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0197263461
ISBN 13 
9780197263464
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
270
Éditeur
Butterfield Jeremy
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0197262074 ISBN 13 :  9780197262078
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2000
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