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A Treatise on Time and Space: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Time

Autor J. R. Lucas
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2020
Originally published in 1976. This comprehensive study discusses in detail the philosophical, mathematical, physical, logical and theological aspects of our understanding of time and space. The text examines first the many different definitions of time that have been offered, beginning with some of the puzzles arising from our awareness of the passage of time and shows how time can be understood as the concomitant of consciousness. In considering time as the dimension of change, the author obtains a transcendental derivation of the concept of space, and shows why there has to be only one dimension of time and three of space, and why Kant was not altogether misguided in believing the space of our ordinary experience to be Euclidean.

The concept of space-time is then discussed, including Lorentz transformations, and in an examination of the applications of tense logic the author discusses the traditional difficulties encountered in arguments for fatalism. In the final sections he discusses eternity and the beginning and end of the universe.

The book includes sections on the continuity of space and time, on the directedness of time, on the differences between classical mechanics and the Special and General theories of relativity, on the measurement of time, on the apparent slowing down of moving clocks, and on time and probability.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138394049
ISBN-10: 1138394041
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Time

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. Time by Itself  2. The Argument from Time to Space  3. The Theology of Space  4. Space and Time Together  5. Return to Time

Descriere

Originally published in 1976. This comprehensive study discusses the philosophical, mathematical, physical, logical and theological aspects of our understanding of time and space. It includes sections on the continuity of space and time, the directedness of time, theories of relativity, the measurement of time, and time and probability.