Time and Space - Couverture souple

Dainton, Barry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0773523065 ISBN 13 : 9780773523067

Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001

Synopsis

These are just some of the fundamental questions addressed in Time and Space. Writing for a primary readership of advanced undergraduate and graduate philosophy students, Barry Dainton introduces the central ideas and arguments that make space and time such philosophically challenging topics. Although recognising that many issues in the philosophy of time and space involve technical features of physics, Dainton has been careful to keep the conceptual issues accessible to students with little scientific or mathematical training. Surveying historical debates and ideas at the forefront of contemporary thinking, the book is unrivaled in its coverage. Topics include McTaggart's argument for the unreality of change; static, tensed, and dynamic time; time travel and causal arrows; space as void, motion, and curved spac; as well as a non-technical introduction to the special theory of relativity and the key features of general relativity, spacetime, and strings. Dainton also addresses the relationship between the philosophy of time and broader human concerns involving actions, ethics, fatalism, and death.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The first edition (2001) of this title quickly established itself on courses on the philosophy of time and space. This fully revised and expanded new edition sees the addition of chapters on Zeno's paradoxes, speculative contemporary developments in physics, and dynamic time, making the second edition, once again, unrivalled in its breadth of coverage. Surveying both historical debates and the ideas of modern physics, Barry Dainton evaluates the central arguments in a clear and unintimidating way and is careful to keep the conceptual issues throughout comprehensible to students with little scientific or mathematical training. The book makes the philosophy of space and time accessible for anyone trying to come to grips with the complexities of this challenging subject. With over 100 original line illustrations and a full glossary of terms, the book has the requirements of students firmly in sight and will continue to serve as an essential textbook for philosophy of time and space courses.

Revue de presse

"Indispensable... it's very difficult to see how the job of introducing time and space to the philosophically interested could have been better done." --Philosophical Books

"An immensely rich and informative discussion. It should be on all space and time reading lists, both for philosophers and for physicists." --Robin Le Poidevin, Philosophy

"An impressive work which deserves a wide audience" --Graham Nerlich, Australasian Journal of Philosophy

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0773523065
• ISBN 13: 9780773523067
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible