The Arguments of Time
Online ISBN:
9780191734748
Print ISBN:
9780197263464
Publisher:
British Academy
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The Arguments of Time
Jeremy Butterfield (ed.)
Jeremy Butterfield
(ed.)
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy
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Published:
9 March 2006
Online ISBN:
9780191734748
Print ISBN:
9780197263464
Publisher:
British Academy
Cite
Butterfield, Jeremy (ed.), The Arguments of Time, British Academy Centenary Monographs (London , 2006; online edn, British Academy Scholarship Online, 31 Jan. 2012), https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197263464.001.0001, accessed 17 Apr. 2024.
Abstract
These nine chapters, 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? Physics, general relativity and quantum theory give contradictory treatments of time. So in the 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?
Keywords:
language, British Academy, time, philosophy, physics, linguistics, psychology, general relativity, quantum theory, quantum gravity
Contents
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Front Matter
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1.
A Century of Time
J. R. Lucas
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2.
The Metaphysics of Time
Michael Tooley
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3.
Can There be a Literary Philosophy of Time?
Gregory Currie
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4.
On Relativity, Time Reckoning, and the Topology of Time Series
Roberto Torretti
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5.
The Development of Machian Themes in the Twentieth Century
Julian Barbour
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6.
On the Emergence of Time in Quantum Gravity
Jeremy Butterfield andChris Isham
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7.
The Problem of Time In Quantum Geometrodynamics
Karel Kuchař
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8.
Tense, Indexicality, and Consequence
James Higginbotham
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9.
The Perception of Time: Philosophical Views and Psychological Evidence
Michel Treisman
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End Matter
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