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A brief history of the philosophy of time / Adrian Bardon.
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EBSCOhost eBook Community College Collection- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bardon, Adrian, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Time.
- Time--Philosophy.
- Space and time.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This title provides 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.
- Contents:
- What does it mean to ask, "what is time"?
- Time and change
- Idealism and experience
- Time and spacetime
- Does time pass?
- The arrow of time
- Is time travel possible?
- Time and freedom
- Could the universe have no beginning or end in time?
- Is "What is time" the wrong question?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-997774-7
- 0-19-930108-5
- 0-19-934616-X
- 0-19-997773-9
- OCLC:
- 848918118
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