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Author Newton-Smith, W.

Title The structure of time / W.H. Newton-Smith
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (277 pages)
Series Routledge library editions. Philosophy of time
Routledge library editions. Philosophy of time
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface -- I The Nature of Time -- 1 What is Time? -- 2 The Intractability of Time -- 3 Things in Time and Temporal Items -- 4 Reductionism -- 5 Platonism -- 6 A Plan of the Work -- II Time and Change -- 1 Reductionism and Aristotle's Principle -- 2 Changes -- 3 Inconceivability and Verification -- 4 Towards Changeless Time -- 5 Quantized Change -- 6 Date Causality -- 7 Duration Causality -- 8 Spatial Vacua and Reductionist Theories of Space -- 9 A Comparison of Temporal and Spatial Vacua -- 10 Temporal Vacua and Modalities -- III The Topology of Time I: The Linearity of Time -- I The Standard Topology -- 2 Cyclical Time and Closed Time -- 3 A Maximal Exposition of the Hypothesis of Closed Time -- 4 The Underdetermination of Theory by Data -- 5 Reductionism, Platonism and Closed Time -- IV The Topology of Time II: The Unity of Time -- 1 Space, Time and Unity -- 2 Non-unified Space -- 3 Non-unified Space and Non-unified Time -- 4 The Essentially Temporal Character of Evidence -- 5 Unified Space and Non-unified Time? -- V The Topology of Time III: The Beginning of Time -- 1 Beginnings and Endings -- 2 Aristotle, Swinburne and Tenses -- 3 Kant, Indefinite Extrapolation and Possibility -- 4 Empty Time, Leibniz and Explanation -- 5 Aristotle's Principle, Empty Time and the Beginning of the Universe -- VI The Topology of Time IV: The Micro-aspects -- 1 The Micro-structure of Time -- 2 Discrete Time -- 3 The Empirical Significance of Continuity Postulates -- 4 The Points of Time -- 5 The Russellian Construction of Instants -- 6 Instants as Propositions -- 7 Instants as Parts of Durations -- 8 Intervals of Time -- VII The Metric of Time -- 1 Dates and Durations -- 2 The Metrication of Time -- 3 Clocks and Conventions
4 Choosing a Clock -- 5 Conventionalism -- 6 Objectivism -- 7 Platonism and Objectivism -- 8 Objectivism and Semantic Revisionism -- 9 Unmeasurable Time -- VIII The Special Theory of Relativity -- 1 The Special Theory of Relativity -- 2 The Lorentz Transformations -- 3 Consequences of the Lorentz Transformations -- (i) Relativization of Simultaneity and Platonism -- (ii) STR and the Topology of Time -- (iii) Quine and the STR -- 4 The Twins Paradox -- 5 Platonism, Reductionism and the Special Theory of Relativity -- IX The Direction of Time -- 1 The Criterion of Temporal Order -- 2 Memory and Temporal Order -- 3 Memories and Mories -- 4 Physical Correlates -- 5 Predicates and Relations without Physical Correlates -- X Towards a Positive Theory -- 1 What, then, is Time? -- 2 Platonism -- 3 Time as a Construction from Events -- 4 Time as a Logical Space -- 5 Time as a System of Non-empirical Abstract Objects -- 6 The Flexible Response Theory -- 7 The Facts of the Matter -- 8 Time as a Theoretical Structure -- 9 Time as a Theoretical Framework -- Appendix: Properties of Relations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Subject Time.
Time
time.
PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
Time
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0429671830
9780429671838
9780429020506
0429020503