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

Weinert, Friedel

 
9783642437175: The March of Time: Evolving Conceptions of Time in the Light of Scientific Discoveries

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.

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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).

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9783642353468: The March of Time: Evolving Conceptions of Time in the Light of Scientific Discoveries

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ISBN 10 :  3642353460 ISBN 13 :  9783642353468
Editeur : Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heide..., 2013
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