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Time, tense, and causation /

This study presents a new philosophical theory of the nature of time, arguing for a dynamic conception of the universe, according to which past, present and future are not merely subjective features of experience.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tooley, Michael, 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Clarendon Press, ©1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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245 1 0 |a Time, tense, and causation /  |c Michael Tooley. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-389) and index. 
520 8 |a This study presents a new philosophical theory of the nature of time, arguing for a dynamic conception of the universe, according to which past, present and future are not merely subjective features of experience. 
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505 0 |a Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: CAUSATION, TIME, AND ONTOLOGY -- 1. The Nature of Time: Alternative Accounts and Basic Issues -- 1.1 Alternative Views of the Nature of Time -- 1.2 Dynamic versus Static Conceptions of the Nature of the World -- 1.3 Tensed Facts versus Tenseless Facts, and the Question of Supervenience -- 1.4 Indeterminism and the Openness of the Future -- 1.5 Some Divergences from Other Tensed Views of the Nature of Time -- 2. Actuality and Actuality as of a Time -- 2.1 Facts, States of Affairs, and Truth-Makers. 
505 8 |a 2.2 The Idea of a Dynamic World -- 3. Temporally Relative Facts and the Argument from Preventability -- 3.1 The Argument from Preventability -- 3.2 The Question of Backward Causation -- 3.3 A Second Objection to the Argument from Preventability -- 3.4 Alternative Lines of Argument? -- 4. Facts, Causation, and Time -- 4.1 The Truth Conditions of Counterfactuals and the Direction of Counterfactual Dependence -- 4.2 The Nature of Causation: I. Realism -- 4.3 The Nature of Causation: II. A Singularist Approach -- 4.4 The Nature of Causation: III. Causal Laws and Probability. 
505 8 |a 4.5 The Argument from Causation -- 4.6 Causation and What Is Actual -- 4.7 Backward Causation Revisited -- 4.8 Summing Up -- PART II: SEMANTICAL ISSUES -- 5. Truth and Truth at a Time -- 5.1 Truth at a Time: An Initial Objection -- 5.2 Tensed Views of Time and Three-Valued Logic -- 5.3 Truth-Functionality and the Logical Connectives -- 5.4 Truth Simpliciter -- PART III: TENSED FACTS -- 6. Tensed Accounts of the Nature of Time -- 6.1 A Tensed Analysis of the Relation of Temporal Priority? -- 6.2 Are Tenseless Quantifiers Analysable in Tensed Terms? 
505 8 |a 6.3 Are Tensed, Temporal Concepts Unanalysable? -- 6.4 An Argument for the Analysability of Tensed Concepts -- 6.5 Summing Up -- 7. Past, Present, and Future -- 7.1 The Analysis of Simple, Non-Indexical Tensed Statements -- 7.2 The Analysis of Indexical Tensed Statements -- 7.3 More Complex Tensed Statements -- 7.4 Tensed Statements: A Brief Retrospective View -- 8. Past, Present, and Future: Alternative Accounts -- 8.1 The Argument from Causation -- 8.2 Alternative Tensed Views of the Nature of Time -- 8.3 Tensed Sentences and Indexicality. 
505 8 |a 8.4 Instantaneous Events and the Problem of Intrinsic, Tensed Properties -- 8.5 Tensed Accounts that Involve Two or More Intrinsic, Tensed Properties -- 8.6 Presentism -- 8.7 Only the Past and the Present Are Real -- 8.8 Tenseless Accounts of Past, Present, and Future -- PART IV: TEMPORAL RELATIONS -- 9. Causation and Temporal Relations -- 9.1 Different Conceptions of a Causal Theory of Time -- 9.2 Preliminary Considerations in Support of a Causal Analysis of Temporal Concepts -- 9.3 An Absolute, or a Relational Account? -- 9.4 A Causal Theory of Time, or of Space-Time? 
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