Temporal Points of View Subjective and Objective Aspects /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Vázquez Campos, Margarita (Editor), Liz Gutiérrez, Antonio Manuel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 23
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Metaphysics.; Philosophy and science.; Computer simulation.; Physics.; Complexity, Computational.; Complexity.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Simulation and Modeling.; Philosophy of Science.

This book seeks to arrive at a better understanding of the relationships between the objective and subjective aspects of time. It discusses the existence of fluent time, a controversial concept in many areas, from philosophy to physics. Fluent time is understood as directional time with a past, a pr...

Table of Contents:

• The Notion of Point of View
• Objective and Subjective Aspects of Points of View
• Temporal Aspects of Points of View
• Fluent Time, Minds and Points of View
• Branching Time Structures and Points of View
• Change, Event, and Temporal Points of View
• Grounding Qualitative Dimensions
• Kinds, Laws, and Perspectives
• Synchronic and Diachronic Luck
• Presentism, Non-Presentism, and the Possibility of Time Travel.