The metaphysics of time : a dialogue / Bradley Dowden.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New dialogues in philosophyPublisher: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: vii, 155 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780742560307
  • 0742560309
  • 9780742560314
  • 0742560317
  • 9781442200593
  • 1442200596
Subject(s):
Contents:
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.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room BD638 .D69 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000067997

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.

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A scholarly text on the metaphysics and philosophy of time

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