Nothing To Come A Defence of the Growing Block Theory of Time /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Correia, Fabrice (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Rosenkranz, Sven (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 395
• Θέματα: Analysis (Philosophy).; Space sciences.; Mathematical physics.; Logic.; Physics.; Analytic Philosophy.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

This monograph is a detailed study, and systematic defence, of the Growing Block Theory of time (GBT), first conceived by C.D. Broad. The book offers a coherent, logically perspicuous and ideologically lean formulation of GBT, defends it against the most notorious objections to be found in the extan...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. Taking Tense Seriously
• Chapter 2. Existence, Quantification and Identity
• Chapter 3. Temporal Relations
• Chapter 4. The Growing Block
• Chapter 5. The Other Contenders
• Chapter 6. The Epistemic Objection
• Chapter 7. Bivalence, Future Contingents and the Open Future
• Chapter 8. Classical Theories of Time, and Relativity
• Chapter 9. Spatiotemporaryism. .