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9780199298204

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time

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    9780199298204

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    0199298203

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-06-04
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time

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Craig Callender is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale (2001), Time, Reality and Experience (2002) and Introducing Time (2010).

Table of Contents

List of Figuresp. viii
List of Contributorsp. xi
Introductionp. 1
Time and Metaphysics
Persistencep. 13
Fatalism and the Futurep. 41
Time and Chance Propensitiesp. 68
Time and Modalityp. 91
Presentismp. 122
The Possibility of Discrete Timep. 145
Presentism and the Space-Time Manifoldp. 163
The Direction of Time
The Asymmetry of Influencep. 247
The Flow of Timep. 276
Time in Thermodynamicsp. 312
Time, Ethics, and Experience
Prospects for Temporal Neutralityp. 353
Time, Passage, and Immediate Experiencep. 382
Time in Actionp. 420
Time in Cognitive Developmentp. 439
Temporal Experiencep. 460
Time in Classical and Relativistic Physics
Sharpening the Electromagnetic Arrow(s) of Timep. 485
Time, Topology, and the Twin Paradoxp. 528
Time in the Special Theory of Relativityp. 546
Time in Classical Dynamicsp. 571
Time Travel and Time Machinesp. 577
Time in a Quantum World
The CPT Theoremp. 633
Time in Quantum Mechanicsp. 647
Time in Quantum Gravityp. 663
Indexp. 679
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