Experiencing time
Our engagement with time is a ubiquitous feature of our lives, but how does our encounter with it reveal the true nature of temporal reality? Simon Prosser addresses central questions at the heart of this debate, and explores our understanding of time, its passage, and our experience of changes, rates, and durations.
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- Full title :Experiencing time.
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Our engagement with time is a ubiquitous feature of our lives, but how does our encounter with it reveal the true nature of temporal reality? Simon Prosser addresses central questions at the heart of this debate, and explores our understanding of time, its passage, and our experience of changes, rates, and durations.
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- Publication Date:2016.
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780191811579, 0191811572, 9780191065774, 0191065773, 0198748949, 9780198748946
- oclc:ocn945735889
- LC Classification:BD638
- Dewey Decimal:115
Table of Contents
Cover; Experiencing Time; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1: Introduction: The Metaphysics of Time; 1.1. The A-theory and the B-theory; 1.2. Ontological Variants of the A-theory; 1.3. Other Variants of the A-theory; 1.4. The B-theory; 1.5. The Direction of Time; 1.6. Arguments for the B-theory; 1.6.1. McTaggart's paradox; 1.6.2. Arguments from relativity theory; 1.6.3. The rate at which time passes; 2: Experience and the Passage of Time; 2.1. Experiencing Ontic Becoming; 2.2. L.A. Paul's Argument; 2.3. The Privileged Present.
2.4. The Detector Argument2.5. Huw Price's Argument and Tim Maudlin's Reply; 2.6. The Multi-Detector Argument; 2.7. Some Objections to the Multi-Detector Argument; 2.8. Can Experience Represent the Passage of Time?; 2.9. The Unintelligibility of the A-theory; 2.9.1. Can language or thought represent A-theoretic features?; 2.9.2. The A-theory is unintelligible; 2.9.3. Is the B-theory intelligible?; 3: Attitudes to the Past, Present, and Future; 3.1. The Date Theory and the Token-Reflexive Theory; 3.2. Thank Goodness That's Over; 3.3. The Person-Reflexive Theory; 3.4. Why Thank Goodness?
3.5. SEF Relations3.6. …
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