Time and uncertainty / edited by Paul A. Harris and Michael Crawford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harris, Paul (Paul A.), editor.

Crawford, Michael (Professor of Developmental genetics), editor.

Series:

Study of time ; Volume 11.

The study of time ; Volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Philosophy.

Time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2004]

Summary:

The essays in this volume all originated at the 2001 conference of the International Society for the Study of Time. The theme 'Time and Uncertainty' sounds redundant, but the contributions try to come to terms with the irreducible openness of time and the impermanence of life. The essays from various disciplines have been grouped around 'fracture and rupture' (grappling with time and uncertainty as a breach) and 'rapture and structure (solving uncertainty into pattern).

Contents:

Foreword Paul Harris and Michael Crawford

President's Welcoming Remarks: My ncertainties About Time - Rémy Lestienne

Founder's Lecture: Mathematics And Time - J. T. Fraser

Time and Uncertainty: A Metaphorical Equation - Maria L. Assad

Thoreau's Sense of History: Uncertainty, Identity, Representation - John Dolis

"Ejected from the Present and Its Certainties" The Indeterminate Temporality of Hypertext - Jo Alyson Parker

Get Real: Narrative and Uncertainty in Fiction - Sabine Gross

Time: the uncertainty of frame or content - John S. Kafka

Time and Uncertainty in Elizabeth Bishop's Poems - Ann Marie Bush

Francis Bacon: Retrospective Uncertainties - Claudia Clausius

A Walk In Looking-Glass Land: Reflections On The Art-Historical `Big Picture' - Nicholas Tresilian

The Composer As Prophet In Time And Uncertainty - Helen Sills

The Seeds of Time: Time And Uncertainty In Shakespeare - Herbert Bronstein

A Time To Regender: The Transformation Of Roman Time - Melissa Barden Dowling

Relationships Between Subjective Time And Information Processed (Reduction Of Uncertainty) - Ronald P. Gruber, Lawrence F. Wagner, Richard A. Block

A cognitive interpretation of the notion of "uncertainty in time" within the framework of modern physics - Pierre Uzan

The Uncertainty of the Future - Peter Øhrstrøm.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-474-1373-3

OCLC:

1281973068

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047413738 DOI