Space and time : a priori and a posteriori studies / / edited by Vincenzo Fano, Francesco Orilia and Giovanni Macchia

• Pubblicazione: Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Disciplina: 115
• Soggetto topico: Space and time
• Soggetto non controllato: Metaphysics; Philosophy of Physics
• Classificazione: CC 6320
• Persona (resp. second.): FanoVincenzo; OriliaFrancesco; MacchiaGiovanni
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- EDITORS' INTRODUCTION / Fano, Vincenzo / Orilia, Francesco / Macchia, Giovanni -- ON RUSSELL'S METAPHYSICS OF TIME / Landini, Gregory -- WEAK DISCERNIBILITY AND THE IDENTITY OF SPACETIME POINTS / Dieks, Dennis -- A STRUCTURAL AND FOUNDATIONAL ANALYSIS OF EUCLID'S PLANE GEOMETRY: THE CASE STUDY OF CONTINUITY / Graziani, Pierluigi -- CAN THE MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE OF SPACE BE KNOWN A PRIORI? A TALE OF TWO POSTULATES / Mares, Edwin -- GUNKOLOGY AND POINTILISM: TWO MUTUALLY SUPERVENING MODELS OF THE REGION-BASED AND THE POINT-BASED THEORY OF THE INFINITE TWODIMENSIONAL CONTINUUM / Arsenijević, Miloš / Adžić, Miloš -- THIS MOMENT AND THE NEXT MOMENT / Orilia, Francesco -- T×W EPISTEMIC MODALITY / Iacona, Andrea -- TOWARDS A THEORY OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL TIME TRAVEL / Mancuso, Domenico -- GÖDELIAN TIME TRAVEL AND WEYL'S PRINCIPLE / Fano, Vincenzo / Macchia, Giovanni -- About the authors
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection focuses on the ontology of space and time. It is centred on the idea that the issues typically encountered in this area must be tackled from a multifarious perspective, paying attention to both a priori and a posteriori considerations. Several experts in this area contribute to this volume: G. Landini discusses how Russell's conception of time features in his general philosophical perspective; D. Dieks proposes a middle course between substantivalist and relationist accounts of space-time; P. Graziani argues that it is necessary to provide an account of the "synthetic procedures" implicit in the recourse to diagrams in Euclid's Elements, while E. Mares comes to the conclusion that in Euclid's Elements we should treat the parallel postulate as empirical and the postulate that space is continuous as a priori. M. Arsenijević/M. Adžić present an important formal result concerning two theories of the infinite two-dimensional continua, which sheds new light on the current dispute between gunkologists and pointilists; F. Orilia discusses two problems for presentism, one regarding the duration of the present and the other related to Zeno's paradoxes. A. Iacona delves deep into logical matters by focusing on the so-called T×W modal frames in order to deal with the deteterminism-indeterminism controversy. D. Mancuso outlines a non-standard temporal model compatible with time travel, and V. Fano/G. Macchia discuss time travels in the light of an important foundational principle of modern cosmology, Weyl's Principle.
• Titolo autorizzato: Space and time
• ISBN: 3-11-055474-7; 1-306-93589-X; 3-11-036914-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910829023503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Philosophische Analyse ; ; Volume/Band 54.