The metaphysics of time [[electronic resource] ] : a dialogue / / Bradley Dowden
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| Autore: |
Dowden Bradley Harris
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| Titolo: |
The metaphysics of time [[electronic resource] ] : a dialogue / / Bradley Dowden
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (164 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 115 |
| Soggetto topico: | Time |
| Space and time | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The Metaphysics of Time; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 01: Introduction; Chapter 02: Fatalism, Free Will, and Foreknowledge; Chapter 03: Mind, the Metric, and Conventionality; Chapter 04: Time Travel and Backward Causation; Chapter 05: Time's Origin, and Relationism vs. Substantivalism; Chapter 06: McTaggart, Tensed Facts, and Time's Flow; Chapter 07: Presentism, the Block Universe, and Perduring Objects; Chapter 08: The Arrow of Time; Chapter 09: Zeno's Paradoxes and Supertasks; Glossary; About the Author |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Seventh in the New Dialogues in Philosophy series, this book discusses the concept of time and shows in the simplest ways how time informs discussions about causality, creation, physics, natural disasters, and much more. Creating a series of conversations between two fictional characters, Bradley Dowden uses the characters to explore nine metaphysical issues involving time. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The metaphysics of time |
| ISBN: | 1-282-52212-4 |
| 9786612522123 | |
| 1-4422-0059-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780841703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
New dialogues in philosophy.