Re-Thinking Time at the Interface of Physics and Philosophy The Forgotten Present /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: von Müller, Albrecht (Editor), Filk, Thomas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: On Thinking, 4
• Subjects: Physics.; Metaphysics.; Philosophy of mind.; Philosophy and science.; Quantum physics.; Quantum Physics.; Philosophy of Science.; Philosophy of Mind.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

The current volume of the Parmenides Series “On Thinking” addresses our deepest and most personal experience of the world, the experience of “the present,” from a modern perspective combining physics and philosophy. Many prominent researchers have contributed articles to the volume, in which they pr...

Table of Contents:

• The Forgotten Present
• Autogenetic Network Theory
• Relational Events and the Conflict Between Relativity and the Collapse
• Relativistic Interactions and the Structure of Time
• Instants in Physics – Point Mechanics and General Relativity
• Irreversibility and Collapse Models
• Time and the Algebraic Theory of Moments
• The Problem of Time and the Problem of Quantum Measurement
• Classical and Quantum Probability: The two Logics of Science
• Present and Future in Quantum Mechanics
• Quantum Physics and Presentism
• Now, Factuality and Conditio Humana.