Keywords:
Space and time.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Originally published in 1980. The author's arguments here provide grounds for rejecting both the absolutist and the relativist theories of time and presents two new theories, shifting the traditional debate to a consideration of time as a theoretical structure and theoretical framework.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (277 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780429671838
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Time Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5548746
DDC:
115
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface -- I The Nature of Time -- 1 What is Time? -- 2 The Intractability of Time -- 3 Things in Time and Temporal Items -- 4 Reductionism -- 5 Platonism -- 6 A Plan of the Work -- II Time and Change -- 1 Reductionism and Aristotle's Principle -- 2 Changes -- 3 Inconceivability and Verification -- 4 Towards Changeless Time -- 5 Quantized Change -- 6 Date Causality -- 7 Duration Causality -- 8 Spatial Vacua and Reductionist Theories of Space -- 9 A Comparison of Temporal and Spatial Vacua -- 10 Temporal Vacua and Modalities -- III The Topology of Time I: The Linearity of Time -- I The Standard Topology -- 2 Cyclical Time and Closed Time -- 3 A Maximal Exposition of the Hypothesis of Closed Time -- 4 The Underdetermination of Theory by Data -- 5 Reductionism, Platonism and Closed Time -- IV The Topology of Time II: The Unity of Time -- 1 Space, Time and Unity -- 2 Non-unified Space -- 3 Non-unified Space and Non-unified Time -- 4 The Essentially Temporal Character of Evidence -- 5 Unified Space and Non-unified Time? -- V The Topology of Time III: The Beginning of Time -- 1 Beginnings and Endings -- 2 Aristotle, Swinburne and Tenses -- 3 Kant, Indefinite Extrapolation and Possibility -- 4 Empty Time, Leibniz and Explanation -- 5 Aristotle's Principle, Empty Time and the Beginning of the Universe -- VI The Topology of Time IV: The Micro-aspects -- 1 The Micro-structure of Time -- 2 Discrete Time -- 3 The Empirical Significance of Continuity Postulates -- 4 The Points of Time -- 5 The Russellian Construction of Instants -- 6 Instants as Propositions -- 7 Instants as Parts of Durations -- 8 Intervals of Time -- VII The Metric of Time -- 1 Dates and Durations -- 2 The Metrication of Time -- 3 Clocks and Conventions.
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4 Choosing a Clock -- 5 Conventionalism -- 6 Objectivism -- 7 Platonism and Objectivism -- 8 Objectivism and Semantic Revisionism -- 9 Unmeasurable Time -- VIII The Special Theory of Relativity -- 1 The Special Theory of Relativity -- 2 The Lorentz Transformations -- 3 Consequences of the Lorentz Transformations -- (i) Relativization of Simultaneity and Platonism -- (ii) STR and the Topology of Time -- (iii) Quine and the STR -- 4 The Twins Paradox -- 5 Platonism, Reductionism and the Special Theory of Relativity -- IX The Direction of Time -- 1 The Criterion of Temporal Order -- 2 Memory and Temporal Order -- 3 Memories and Mories -- 4 Physical Correlates -- 5 Predicates and Relations without Physical Correlates -- X Towards a Positive Theory -- 1 What, then, is Time? -- 2 Platonism -- 3 Time as a Construction from Events -- 4 Time as a Logical Space -- 5 Time as a System of Non-empirical Abstract Objects -- 6 The Flexible Response Theory -- 7 The Facts of the Matter -- 8 Time as a Theoretical Structure -- 9 Time as a Theoretical Framework -- Appendix: Properties of Relations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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