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The metaphysics of time : a dialogue /
Seventh in the New Dialogues in Philosophy series, this book discusses the concept of time and shows in the simplest ways how time informs discussions about causality, creation, physics, consciousness of time, and much more. Creating a series of conversations between two fictional characters, Bradle...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
©2009.
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| Collection: | New dialogues in philosophy.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction
- Fatalism, free will, and foreknowledge
- Mind, the metric, and conventionality
- Time travel and backward causation
- Time's origin, and relationism vs. substantivalism
- McTaggart, tensed facts, and time's flow
- Presentism, the block universe, and perduring objects
- The arrow of time
- Zeno's paradoxes and supertasks.