The nature of time / Ulrich Meyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyer, Ulrich, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space and time--Philosophy.

Space and time.

Time--Philosophy.

Time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 161 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ulrich Meyer defends a novel theory about the nature of time and argues against the consensus view that time and space are fundamentally alike. He presents a comprehensive defence of a 'modal' account, which emphasises the similarities between times and possible worlds in modal logic, and is easily reconciled with the theory of relativity.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Relationism about time""; ""2.1 Times as classes of events""; ""2.2 Are events metaphysically basic?""; ""2.3 Temporal-parts relationism""; ""3 Temporal substantivalism""; ""3.1 Times and properties""; ""3.2 Unemployed time points""; ""3.3 The temporal manifold""; ""4 Tense logic""; ""4.1 The property�time link""; ""4.2 Modal logic in a nutshell""; ""4.3 Tense operators""; ""5 Propositions""; ""5.1 Contents of assertion""; ""5.2 Beliefs and other attitudes""; ""5.3 Facts and truth-making""; ""6 Instants of time""

""6.1 Definitional incompleteness""""6.2 Linguistic ersatzism about times""; ""6.3 Times in the object language""; ""7 Temporal structure""; ""7.1 The number of times""; ""7.2 Eternal recurrence""; ""7.3 Objective distances""; ""8 Time and existence""; ""8.1 The logic of quantifiers""; ""8.2 Operators and quantifiers""; ""8.3 A quantified tense logic""; ""9 Presentism""; ""9.1 The triviality objection""; ""9.2 Reconstructive presentism""; ""9.3 Presentism and actualism""; ""10 The flow of time""; ""10.1 A trivial theory""; ""10.2 The moving NOW""; ""10.3 Pure becoming""

""11 The problem of motion""""11.1 Einstein's train example""; ""11.2 The relativity of simultaneity""; ""11.3 Minkowski spacetime""; ""12 Relativity without spacetime""; ""12.1 The inseparability argument""; ""12.2 Hybrid views""; ""12.3 Symmetries and structure""; ""13 Conclusion""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 2, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-176064-1

0-19-150190-5

OCLC:

854557986