Space and time : a priori and a posteriori studies / edited by Vincenzo Fano, Francesco Orilia and Giovanni Macchia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fano, Vincenzo, editor.

Orilia, Francesco, editor.

Macchia, Giovanni, editor.

Series:

Philosophische Analyse ; Volume/Band 54.

Philosophische Analyse = Philosophical Analysis, 2198-2066 ; Volume/Band 54

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space and time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection focuses on the ontology of space and time. It is centred on the idea that the issues typically encountered in this area must be tackled from a multifarious perspective, paying attention to both a priori and a posteriori considerations. Several experts in this area contribute to this volume: G. Landini discusses how Russell's conception of time features in his general philosophical perspective; D. Dieks proposes a middle course between substantivalist and relationist accounts of space-time; P. Graziani argues that it is necessary to provide an account of the "synthetic procedures" implicit in the recourse to diagrams in Euclid's Elements, while E. Mares comes to the conclusion that in Euclid's Elements we should treat the parallel postulate as empirical and the postulate that space is continuous as a priori. M. Arsenijević/M. Adžić present an important formal result concerning two theories of the infinite two-dimensional continua, which sheds new light on the current dispute between gunkologists and pointilists; F. Orilia discusses two problems for presentism, one regarding the duration of the present and the other related to Zeno's paradoxes. A. Iacona delves deep into logical matters by focusing on the so-called T×W modal frames in order to deal with the deteterminism-indeterminism controversy. D. Mancuso outlines a non-standard temporal model compatible with time travel, and V. Fano/G. Macchia discuss time travels in the light of an important foundational principle of modern cosmology, Weyl's Principle.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

EDITORS' INTRODUCTION / Fano, Vincenzo / Orilia, Francesco / Macchia, Giovanni

ON RUSSELL'S METAPHYSICS OF TIME / Landini, Gregory

WEAK DISCERNIBILITY AND THE IDENTITY OF SPACETIME POINTS / Dieks, Dennis

A STRUCTURAL AND FOUNDATIONAL ANALYSIS OF EUCLID'S PLANE GEOMETRY: THE CASE STUDY OF CONTINUITY / Graziani, Pierluigi

CAN THE MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE OF SPACE BE KNOWN A PRIORI? A TALE OF TWO POSTULATES / Mares, Edwin

GUNKOLOGY AND POINTILISM: TWO MUTUALLY SUPERVENING MODELS OF THE REGION-BASED AND THE POINT-BASED THEORY OF THE INFINITE TWODIMENSIONAL CONTINUUM / Arsenijević, Miloš / Adžić, Miloš

THIS MOMENT AND THE NEXT MOMENT / Orilia, Francesco

T×W EPISTEMIC MODALITY / Iacona, Andrea

TOWARDS A THEORY OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL TIME TRAVEL / Mancuso, Domenico

GÖDELIAN TIME TRAVEL AND WEYL'S PRINCIPLE / Fano, Vincenzo / Macchia, Giovanni

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ISBN:

9783110554748

3110554747

9781306935890

130693589X

9783110369144

3110369141

OCLC:

882769438