Absolute Time: Rifts in Early Modern British Metaphysics
Author:   Emily Thomas (Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Durham University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198807933


Pages:   254
Publication Date:   05 April 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Absolute Time: Rifts in Early Modern British Metaphysics


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Author:   Emily Thomas (Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Durham University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.542kg
ISBN:  

9780198807933


ISBN 10:   0198807937
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   05 April 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Scene Setting: Time, Philosophy, and Seventeenth Century Britain 2: Henry More and the Development of Absolute Time 3: A Continental Interlude: Time in van Helmont, Gassendi, and Charleton 4: Space and Time in Isaac Barrow: A Modal Relationist Metaphysic 5: Early British Reactions to Absolutism: 1664 to 1687 6: Newton's De Gravitatione on God and his Emanative Effects 7: Locke's Steadfast Time and Space Relationism 8: Later British Reactions to Absolutism: 1690-1704 9: Samuel Clarke's Evolving Morean Absolutism 10: Last Battles over Absolutism: 1704 Onwards Conclusion

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this is a fascinating book. Whether you agree or disagree with any particular thesis in it, it will make you rethink, look afresh at familiar writings, and with interest at unfamiliar ones * J. J. MacIntosh, H-Albion *


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Emily Thomas is Assistant Professor in Philosphy at Durham University. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge (2013) and held a postdoc at the University of Groningen (2013-2016) before arriving at Durham. She mostly works on space and time in the history of philosophy, and is especially fond of excavating the work of philosophically rich but understudied figures.

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