A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time

Adrian Bardon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2013
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-997645-4 (ISBN)

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A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a concise and accessible survey of the history of philosophical and scientific developments in understanding time and our experience of time. It discusses prominent ideas about the nature of time, plus many subsidiary puzzles about time, from the classical period through the present.

Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short yet thorough introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time-from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond.

Its treatment is roughly chronological, starting with the ancient Greek philosophers Heraclitus and Parmenides and proceeding through the history of Western philosophy and science up to the present.

Using illustrations and keeping technical language to a minimum, A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time covers subjects such as time and change, the experience of time, physical and metaphysical approaches to the nature of time, the direction of time, time-travel, time and freedom of the will, and scientific and philosophical approaches to eternity and the beginning of time. Bardon brings the resources of over 2500 years of philosophy and science to bear on some of humanity's most fundamental and enduring questions.

Adrian Bardon is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University, where he teaches courses on the philosophy of space and time and the history of modern philosophy. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles on time and the history of philosophy; he is also the editor of The Future of the Philosophy of Time (2012) and co-editor of the forthcoming A Companion to the Philosophy of Time.

INTRODUCTION: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ASK, "WHAT IS TIME?" ; CHAPTER ONE: TIME AND CHANGE ; CHAPTER TWO: IDEALISM AND EXPERIENCE ; CHAPTER THREE: TIME AND SPACETIME ; CHAPTER FOUR: DOES TIME PASS? ; CHAPTER FIVE: THE ARROW OF TIME ; CHAPTER SIX: IS TIME TRAVEL POSSIBLE? ; CHAPTER SEVEN: TIME AND FREEDOM ; CHAPTER EIGHT: COULD THE UNIVERSE HAVE NO BEGINNING OR END IN TIME? ; EPILOGUE: IS "WHAT IS TIME?" THE WRONG QUESTION?

Zusatzinfo	21illus.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	218 x 145 mm
Gewicht	352 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-10	0-19-997645-7 / 0199976457
ISBN-13	978-0-19-997645-4 / 9780199976454
Zustand	Neuware