The arguments of time / edited by Jeremy Butterfield
1999, 1st Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #355068
ISBN: 0197262074
Physical description: xvi, 253 pages: illustrations. Contents: A century of time / J.R. Lucas -- The metaphysics of time / Michael Tooley -- Can there be a literary philosophy of time? / Gregory Currie -- On relativity, time reckoning and the topology of time series / Roberto Torretti -- The development of Machian themes in the twentieth century / Julian Barbour -- On the emergence of time in quantum gravity / Jeremy Butterfield and Chris Isham -- The problem of time in quantum geometrodynamics / Karel Kucha -- Tense, indexiality and consquence / James Higginbotham -- The perception of time: philosophical views and psychological evidence / Michel Treisman. Subjects:
Time Philosophy. Metaphysics. Philosophy.
Price: €38.00