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Huggett Nick |
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Everywhere and everywhen [[electronic resource] ] : adventures in physics and philosophy / / Nick Huggett |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
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0-19-977655-5 |
0-19-970211-X |
1-283-09637-4 |
9786613096371 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (234 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""Contents""; ""1 A Longish Introduction: The Problem of Change""; ""1.1 Melissus's Paradox""; ""1.2 What Is Change?""; ""1.3 Laws""; ""1.4 Spacetime Today""; ""2 Zeno's Paradoxes""; ""2.1 The Dichotomy Paradox""; ""2.2 'Supertasks'""; ""3 Zeno's Arrow Paradox""; ""3.1 The Paradox""; ""3.2 What Philosophy Can Teach Physics""; ""4 The Shape of Space I: Topology""; ""4.1 An End to Space?""; ""4.2 Neither Bounded Nor Infinite""; ""4.3 What Physics Can Teach Philosophy""; ""5 Beyond the Third Dimension?""; ""5.1 Multidimensional Life""; ""5.2 More Than Three Dimensions?"" |
""8.5 Where Is Geometry?""""9 What Is Space?""; ""9.1 Space=Matter""; ""9.2 Relational Space""; ""9.3 Absolute Space""; ""9.4 Relational Space Redux""; ""9.5 What Physics and Philosophy Can Teach Each Other""; ""10 Time""; ""10.1 Time versus Space""; ""10.2 Nowism""; ""10.3 A Moving Now?""; ""10.4 McTaggart's Argument""; ""10.5 Passing Time in a Block Universe""; ""11 Time and Tralfamadore""; ""11.1 The Mind's Worldline""; ""11.2 Experience of Space versus Time""; ""11.3 Another Arrow""; ""11.4 Physics and the Philosophy of Perception""; ""12 Time Travel""; ""12.1 What Is Time Travel?"" |
""12.2 Is Time Travel Possible?""""12.3 The Problem with Time Travel""; ""12.4 Possible and Impossible Time Travel""; ""12.5 The Philosophy and Physics of Time Travel""; ""13 Why Can't I Stop My Younger Self |
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