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These nine essays, commissioned on the initiative of the Philosophy section of the British Academy, address fundamental questions about time in philosophy, physics, linguistics, and psychology. Are there facts about the future? Could we affect the past? In physics, general relativity and quantum theory give contradictory treatments of time. So in the current search for a theory of quantum gravity, which should give way: general relativity or quantum theory? In linguistics and psychology, how does our language represent time, and how do our minds keep track of it? Contributors include John…mehr

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These nine essays, commissioned on the initiative of the Philosophy section of the British Academy, address fundamental questions about time in philosophy, physics, linguistics, and psychology. Are there facts about the future? Could we affect the past? In physics, general relativity and quantum theory give contradictory treatments of time. So in the current search for a theory of quantum gravity, which should give way: general relativity or quantum theory? In linguistics and psychology, how does our language represent time, and how do our minds keep track of it? Contributors include John Lucas, Michael Tooley, Gregory Currie, Roberto Torretti, Julian Barbour, Jeremy Butterfield, Chris Isham, Karel Kuchar, James Higginbotham, and Michel Treisman.
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Edited by Jeremy Butterfield, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy

Contributors: John Lucas, formerly of University of Oxford Michael Tooley, University of Colorado at Boulder Gregory Currie, Flinders University Roberto Torretti, University of Puerto Rico Julian Barbour, independent theoretical physicist Jeremy Butterfield, FBA, University of OXford Chris Isham, Imperial College, London Karel Kuchar, University of Utah James Higginbotham, FBA, University of Oxford Michel Treisman, University of Oxford