Time: A Very Short Introduction
Author:   Jenann Ismael (Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   144
Publication Date:   28 October 2021
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Author:   Jenann Ismael (Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 11.10cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 17.40cm
Weight:   0.112kg
ISBN:  

9780198832669


ISBN 10:   0198832664
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   28 October 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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Introduction 1: History up through Newton 2: From space and time to space-time: the era of Einstein 3: Philosophical implications of the relativistic conception of time 4: The direction of time 5: The time of human experience 6: The big picture and new horizons Further Reading Index

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Jenann Ismael is a Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, Affiliate of the Zuckerman Institute, and member of FQXi. She taught at Stanford University and the University of Arizona before coming to Columbia. Ismael has held fellowships at the National Humanities Center, and the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and a Queen Elizabeth II fellowship at the Centre for Time in Sydney. Her work has been supported by the Templeton Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, NEH, and the Foundational Questions Institute. She is the author of Essays on Symmetry (2001); The Situated Self (2007); and How Physics Makes Us Free (2016).

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