The metaphysics of time : a dialogue /
Dowden, Bradley Harris,
The metaphysics of time : a dialogue / Bradley Dowden. - vii, 155 pages ; 23 cm. - New dialogues in philosophy . - New dialogues in philosophy. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Fatalism, free will, and foreknowledge -- Mind, the metric, and conventionality -- Time travel and backward causation -- Time's origin, and relationism vs. substantivalism -- McTaggart, tensed facts, and time's flow -- Presentism, the block universe, and perduring objects -- The arrow of time -- Zeno's paradoxes and supertasks.
9780742560307 0742560309 9780742560314 0742560317 9781442200593 1442200596
2009021319
Time.
Time--Philosophy.
Time.
Philosophy Metaphysics
The metaphysics of time : a dialogue / Bradley Dowden. - vii, 155 pages ; 23 cm. - New dialogues in philosophy . - New dialogues in philosophy. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Fatalism, free will, and foreknowledge -- Mind, the metric, and conventionality -- Time travel and backward causation -- Time's origin, and relationism vs. substantivalism -- McTaggart, tensed facts, and time's flow -- Presentism, the block universe, and perduring objects -- The arrow of time -- Zeno's paradoxes and supertasks.
9780742560307 0742560309 9780742560314 0742560317 9781442200593 1442200596
2009021319
Time.
Time--Philosophy.
Time.
Philosophy Metaphysics