Time, tense, and causation /

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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.
Temas:
Time.
Causation.
Tense (Logic)
Relativity (Physics)
Time
Causality
Temps.
Causalité.
Temps (Logique)
Relativité (Physique)
time.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Causation
Tijd.
Causaliteit.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • 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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