The Philosophy of Time

Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-0-19-823999-4
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 305 g

Reihe: Oxford Readings in Philosophy

This volume provides a balanced set of reviews which introduce the central topics in the philosophy of time. This is the first introductory anthology on the subject to appear for many years; the contributors are distinguished, and two of the essays are specially written for this collection. In their introduction, the editors summarise the background to the debate, and show the relevance of issues in the philosophy of time for other branches of philosophy and for
science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Le, Poidevin Robin

Macbeath, Murray

Le Poidevin, Robin

MacBeath, Murray

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Zeiterfassung, Chronologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1: Time and Tense: J. M. E. McTaggart: The Unreality of Time; Arthur N. Prior: Changes in Events and Changes in Things; D. H. Mellor: The Unreality of Tense; 2: Relationism about Time: Sydney Shoemaker: Time without Change; Graeme Forbes: Time, Events, and Modality; 3: The Direction of Time: Lawrence Sklar: Up and Down, Left and Right, Past and Future; Michael Dummett: Bringing about the Past; David Lewis: The Paradoxes of Time Travel; 4: The Topology
of Time; Robin Le Poidevin: Relationism and Temporal Topology: Physics or Metaphysics?; W. H. Newton-Smith: The Beginning of Time; Murray MacBeath: Time's Square; Anthony Quinton: Spaces and Times.

Über Autor(innen)

Robin Le Poidevin was a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews (1988-9) and Lecturer in Philosophy at Oriel College, Oxford (1987). He lives in Farnhill, West Yorkshire.

Andrew MacBeath lives in Dunblane, Perthshire.