Time, space, and metaphysics / Bede Rundle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rundle, Bede.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space and time.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Time, Space, and Metaphysics engages with major philosophical questions concerning time and space, a framework for the investigation being provided by the debate between the absolutists and the relationists, so between Newton and Leibniz, and their followers. The investigation brings to the fore questions of the nature and reality of time and space, and leads on to more recent debates, such as those relating to anti-realism, time travel, temporal parts, geometry,convention, and the infinitude of time and space. These in turn raise more general issues, issues involving such concepts as those of

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1. Conceptions of Time and Space; 2. Time, Order, and Direction; 3. Time and Tense; 4. Observer-Dependence; 5. The Past; 6. The Future; 7. Grammar and Ontology; 8. Equality of Time Intervals; 9. Temporal Asymmetries; 10. Space; 11. Time and Change; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-264) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-34645-8

9786612346453

0-19-157202-0

OCLC:

495092246