1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBSOBE00037689

Autore

Thucydides

Titolo

2: Lib. 5.-8., Index

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lipsiae : in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1893

Edizione

[Editio stereotypa]

Descrizione fisica

XXX, 311 p . ; 19 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Greco antico

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300615003321

Autore

Correia Fabrice

Titolo

Nothing To Come : A Defence of the Growing Block Theory of Time / / by Fabrice Correia, Sven Rosenkranz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-78704-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 197 p. 6 illus.)

Collana

Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, , 0166-6991 ; ; 395

Disciplina

146.4

Soggetti

Analysis (Philosophy)

Space sciences

Mathematical physics

Logic

Physics

Analytic Philosophy

Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)

Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences

History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Taking Tense Seriously -- Chapter 2. Existence, Quantification and Identity -- Chapter 3. Temporal Relations -- Chapter 4. The Growing Block -- Chapter 5. The Other Contenders -- Chapter 6. The Epistemic Objection -- Chapter 7. Bivalence, Future Contingents and the Open Future -- Chapter 8. Classical Theories of Time, and Relativity -- Chapter 9. Spatiotemporaryism. .

Sommario/riassunto

This monograph is a detailed study, and systematic defence, of the Growing Block Theory of time (GBT), first conceived by C.D. Broad. The book offers a coherent, logically perspicuous and ideologically lean formulation of GBT, defends it against the most notorious objections to be found in the extant philosophical literature, and shows how it can be derived from a more general theory, consistent with relativistic spacetime, on the pre-relativistic assumption of an absolute and total temporal order. The authors devise axiomatizations of GBT and its competitors which, against the backdrop of a shared quantified tense logic, significantly improves the prospects of their comparative assessment. Importantly, neither of these axiomatizations involves commitment to properties of presentness, pastness or futurity. The authors proceed to address, and defuse, a number of objections that have been marshaled against GBT, including the so-called epistemic objection according to which the theory invites skepticism about our temporal location. The challenge posed by relativistic physics is met head-on, by replacing claims about temporal variation by claims about variation across spacetime. The book aims to achieve the greatest possible rigor. The background logic is set out in detail, as are the principles governing the notions of precedence and temporal location. The authors likewise devise a novel spacetime logic suited for the articulation, and comparative assessment, of relativistic theories of time. The book comes with three technical appendices which include soundness and completeness proofs for the systems corresponding to GBT and its competitors, in both their pre-relativistic and relativistic forms. The book is primarily directed at researchers and graduate students working on the philosophy of time or temporal logic, but is of interest to metaphysicians and philosophical logicians more generally.