Time and space / Barry Dainton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dainton, Barry, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space and time.

Relativity (Physics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 464 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Acumen, 2010.

Summary:

This fully revised edition of this standard work on the philosophy of time and space includes two new chapters on Zeno’s paradoxes, new material on dynamic time, speculative contemporary developments in physics, and time and consciousness, making the second edition, once again, unrivalled in its breadth of coverage. Surveying both historical debates and the ideas of modern physics, Barry Dainton evaluates the central arguments in a clear and unintimidating way and is careful to keep the conceptual issues throughout comprehensible to students with little scientific or mathematical training. The book makes the philosophy of space and time accessible for anyone trying to come to grips with the complexities of this challenging subject. With well over 100 original line illustrations and a full glossary of terms, the book has the requirements of students firmly in sight and will continue to serve as an essential textbook for philosophy of time and space courses.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; 1 Preliminaries; 1.1 Ontology: the existence of space and time; 1.2 Questions of structure; 1.3 Physics and metaphysics; 1.4 Time: the great divide; 1.5 Two frameworks; 1.6 Matters terminological; 2 McTaggart on time's unreality; 2.1 Could time be unreal?; 2.2 Change as the essence of time; 2.3 McTaggart's A-paradox; 2.4 Other routes to the same place; 2.5 The nature of A-properties; 2.6 The overdetermination problem; 2.7 Consequences; 3 The Block universe

3.1 Time without passage3.2 Passage and experience; 3.3 A-truth in a B-world; 3.4 Another A-paradox; 3.5 The indispensability of the A-framework; 3.6 Questions of attitude; 3.7 B-theories of change; 3.8 Emergent time; 4 Asymmetries within time; 4.1 The direction of time; 4.2 Content-asymmetries: a fuller picture; 4.3 Entropy; 4.4 The causal route; 4.5 Causation in question; 4.6 Time in reverse; 4.7 Fundamental forks; 5 Tensed time; 5.1 Tense versus dynamism; 5.2 Taking tense seriously; 5.3 McTaggart revisited; 5.4 Is tense enough?; 6 Dynamic time; 6.1 The Growing Block; 6.2 Overdetermination

6.3 Dynamism without tense6.4 The thinning tree; 6.5 How can a block grow?; 6.6 The eternal past; 6.7 The varieties of Presentism; 6.8 Solipsistic Presentism; 6.9 Many-Worlds Presentism; 6.10 Dynamic Presentism; 6.11 Compound Presentism; 7 Time and consciousness; 7.1 The micro-phenomenology of time; 7.2 Memory based accounts; 7.3 The pulse theory; 7.4 Awareness and overlap; 7.5 The two-dimensional model; 7.6 The overlap theory; 7.7 The phenomenal arrow; 7.8 Further consequences; 8 Time travel; 8.1 Questions of possibility and paradox; 8.2 Misconceptions and multidimensions

8.3 Self-defeating loops8.4 Global consistency constraints; 8.5 Bilking; 8.6 Quantum retroaction; 8.7 The inexplicable; 8.8 Voyaging in dynamic time; 8.9 Real time; 9 Conceptions of void; 9.1 Space as void; 9.2 The unseen constrainer; 9.3 Connection in question; 9.4 Substantivalism: a closer look; 9.5 Relationism: a closer look; 9.6 Two concepts of distance; 9.7 Two conceptions of motion; 9.8 Matters terminological; 10 Space: the classical debate; 10.1 The last of the magicians; 10.2 Galileo; 10.3 Descartes; 10.4 Leibniz; 10.5 The argument from indiscernibility

10.6 The argument from sufficient reason10.7 The methodological argument; 11 Absolute motion; 11.1 Inertial motion; 11.2 The argument for real inertial motions; 11.3 The argument from inertial effects; 11.4 Stalemate?; 11.5 The Leibnizian response; 11.6 The Machian response; 11.7 The Sklar response; 12 Motion in spacetime; 12.1 Newtonian spacetime; 12.2 Neo-Newtonian spacetime; 12.3 The only reasonable view?; 12.4 A threat vanquished; 12.5 The charge of explanatory impotence; 12.6 A rebuttal; 12.7 Newtonian spacetime relationism; 12.8 Neo-Newtonian spacetime relationism

12.9 Relationism redux

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-315-53932-2

1-134-94404-7

1-134-94397-0

1-280-11994-2

9786613523884

1-84465-443-5

9781315539324

OCLC:

947837735