時間論 The Arguments of Time

Butterfield, Jeremy

Oxford University Press（2000/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 270 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780197262078
• DDC分類 115

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2000. These nine essays address fundamental questions about time in philosophy, physics, linguistics, and psychology.

Full Description

These nine essays, commissioned on the initiative of the Philosophy section of the British Academy, address fundamental questions about time in philosophy, physics, linguistics, and psychology. Are there facts about the future? Could we affect the past? In physics, general relativity and quantum theory give contradictory treatments of time. So in the current search for a theory of quantum gravity, which should give way: general relativity or quantum theory? In linguistics and psychology, how does our language represent time, and how do our minds keep track of it?

Contents

A Century of Time; The Metaphysics of Time; Can There be a Literary Philosophy of Time?; On Relativity, Time Reckoning and the Topology of Time Series; The Development of Machian Themes in the Twentieth Century; On the Emergence of Time in Quantum Gravity; The Problem of Time in Quantum Geometrodynamics; Tense, Indexicality and Consequence; The Perception of Time: Philosophical Views and Psychological Evidence