The March of Time: Evolving Conceptions of Time in the Light of Scientific Discoveries - Couverture souple

Weinert, Friedel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3642437176 ISBN 13 : 9783642437175

Editeur : Springer, 2015

Synopsis

The aim of this interdisciplinary study is to reconstruct the evolution of our changing conceptions of time in the light of scientific discoveries. It will adopt a new perspective and organize the material around three central themes, which run through our history of time reckoning: cosmology and regularity; stasis and flux; symmetry and asymmetry. It is the physical criteria that humans choose – relativistic effects and time-symmetric equations or dynamic-kinematic effects and asymmetric conditions – that establish our views on the nature of time. This book will defend a dynamic rather than a static view of time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Friedel Weinert is professor of philosophy at Bradford University. He is the author of The Scientist as Philosopher (Springer 2004); Copernicus, Darwin and Freud (Blackwell 2008); the editor of Laws of Nature (de Gruyter 1995) and co-editor of Compendium of Quantum Physics (Springer 2009) and Evolution 2.0 (Springer 2012).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3642437176
• ISBN 13: 9783642437175
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
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