The metaphysics of time : a dialogue / Bradley Dowden.

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Dowden, Bradley Harris

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781442200593
1442200596
1282522124
9781282522121
9786612522123
6612522127
1442200596

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Metaphysics of time.DDC classification:

115 22

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BD638

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Contents:

Introduction -- Fatalism, free will, and foreknowledge -- Mind, the metric, and conventionality -- Time travel and backward causation -- Time's origin, and relationism vs. substantivalism -- McTaggart, tensed facts, and time's flow -- Presentism, the block universe, and perduring objects -- The arrow of time -- Zeno's paradoxes and supertasks.

Summary: Seventh in the New Dialogues in Philosophy series, this book discusses the concept of time and shows in the simplest ways how time informs discussions about causality, creation, physics, consciousness of time, and much more. Creating a series of conversations between two fictional characters, Bradley Dowden uses the characters to explore nine metaphysical issues involving time. Through the dialogue between his two protagonists, Dowden offers well-known arguments in the field of metaphysics for positionson such topics as the finite nature of time, absolute versus relational time, and Zeno's par.

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Seventh in the New Dialogues in Philosophy series, this book discusses the concept of time and shows in the simplest ways how time informs discussions about causality, creation, physics, consciousness of time, and much more. Creating a series of conversations between two fictional characters, Bradley Dowden uses the characters to explore nine metaphysical issues involving time. Through the dialogue between his two protagonists, Dowden offers well-known arguments in the field of metaphysics for positionson such topics as the finite nature of time, absolute versus relational time, and Zeno's par.

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