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Time in contemporary intellectual thought /

In this book, fifteen authors from a wide spectrum of disciplines (ranging from the natural sciences to the arts) offer assessments of the way time enters their work, the definition and uses of time that have proved most productive or problematic, and the lessons their subjects can offer for our und...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Baert, Patrick, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : North Holland : Elsevier, 2000.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Azimuth (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 2.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introducing time (P. Baert, A. Shipman). The complete description of temporal reality (R. Teichmann). The temporalization of time in modern philosophy (M. Sandbothe). Understandings of time in complementaristic language (L. L�ofgren). The origin of the universe (W.H. Newton-Smith). A clash of doctrines: The arrow of time in modern physics (P. Coveney). Past events never come back (X. De Hemptinne). Time's poisened arrow: Reconstructing evolutionary history (A. Friday). Time and evolution (I. Tattersall). Real time and telative indeterminacy in economic theory (M. Rizzo). Time in economic theory (F. Hahn). Time in social theory (P. Baert). Political theory and time (M. Lane). Time and anthropology (A. Gell). Postmodernist theories and the question of time (M. Quie). Time in Psychology (W. Friedman). Conclusion: A time whose idea has come (A. Shipman, P. Baert). Index.