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This text deals with the problem of time from different perspectives such as logic, physics and philosophy. It contains 18 previously unpublished papers, written by philosophers from various European countries, as well as a large introduction about the history and the main situation in the respective fields today. The prominent issues which are addressed in this book concern the direction of time, the reality of tenses, the objectivity of becoming, the existence in time, and the logical structures of reasoning about time. The papers have been written based on different approaches, partly depending on whether the authors subscribe to an A-theory or a B-theory of time.

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Author:   Jan Faye ,  Uwe Scheffler ,  Max Urchs
Publisher:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   1997 ed.
Volume:   189
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.880kg
ISBN:  

9780792343301

ISBN 10:   0792343301
Pages:   472
Publication Date:   30 November 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I: The Philosophy of Time.- Three Views on the Relationship Between Time and Reality.- On Now-Ambiguities.- The Objectivity of Time-Flux and the Direction of Time.- Fleeting Things and Permanent Stuff: A Priorean Project in Real Time.- Existence in Time: From Substance to Process.- Direction of Time: A Problem of Ontology, not of Physics.- Tense and Existence.- II: The Physics of Time.- Do Times Exist?.- Is the Mark Method Time Dependent?.- Causation, Reversibility and the Direction of Time.- The Physical Worldview and the Reality of Becoming.- III: The Logic of Time.- Relations between Sets of Time Points and Quasi-Linear Orderings.- Linguistic and Tense Logical Considerations on the Generality of a Three-Point Structure of Tenses.- Time, Truth and Existence.- Dimensions of Time.- Time and Negation.- A New Tempo-Modal Logic for Emerging Truth.- A. N. Prior’s Ideas on the Relation Between Semantics and Axiomatics for Temporal Logic.- Name Index.

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