A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a concise and accessible survey of the history of philosophical and scientific developments in understanding time and our experience of time. It discusses prominent ideas about the nature of time, plus many subsidiary puzzles about time, from the classical period through the present.
A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a concise and accessible survey of the history of philosophical and scientific developments in understanding time and our experience of time. It discusses prominent ideas about the nature of time, plus many subsidiary puzzles about time, from the classical period through the present.
Adrian Bardon is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University, where he teaches courses on the philosophy of space and time and the history of modern philosophy. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles on time and the history of philosophy; he is also the editor of The Future of the Philosophy of Time (2012) and co-editor of the forthcoming A Companion to the Philosophy of Time.
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INTRODUCTION: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ASK, "WHAT IS TIME?" CHAPTER ONE: TIME AND CHANGE CHAPTER TWO: IDEALISM AND EXPERIENCE CHAPTER THREE: TIME AND SPACETIME CHAPTER FOUR: DOES TIME PASS? CHAPTER FIVE: THE ARROW OF TIME CHAPTER SIX: IS TIME TRAVEL POSSIBLE? CHAPTER SEVEN: TIME AND FREEDOM CHAPTER EIGHT: COULD THE UNIVERSE HAVE NO BEGINNING OR END IN TIME? EPILOGUE: IS "WHAT IS TIME?" THE WRONG QUESTION?
INTRODUCTION: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ASK, "WHAT IS TIME?" CHAPTER ONE: TIME AND CHANGE CHAPTER TWO: IDEALISM AND EXPERIENCE CHAPTER THREE: TIME AND SPACETIME CHAPTER FOUR: DOES TIME PASS? CHAPTER FIVE: THE ARROW OF TIME CHAPTER SIX: IS TIME TRAVEL POSSIBLE? CHAPTER SEVEN: TIME AND FREEDOM CHAPTER EIGHT: COULD THE UNIVERSE HAVE NO BEGINNING OR END IN TIME? EPILOGUE: IS "WHAT IS TIME?" THE WRONG QUESTION?
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