The Arguments of Time

by Jeremy Butterfield (Editor)

Overview

These nine essays, commissioned on the initiative of the Philosophy section of the British Academy, address fundamental questions about time in philosophy, physics, linguistics, and psychology. Are there facts about the future? Could we affect the past? In physics, general relativity and quantum theory give contradictory treatments of time. So in the current search for a theory of quantum gravity, which should give way: general relativity or quantum theory? In linguistics and psychology, how does our language represent time, and how do our minds keep track of it?
Contributors include John Lucas, Michael Tooley, Gregory Currie, Roberto Torretti, Julian Barbour, Jeremy Butterfield, Chris Isham, Karel Kuchar, James Higginbotham, and Michel Treisman.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780197263464
Publisher:	British Academy
Publication date:	05/18/2006
Series:	British Academy Centenary Monographs
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

All Souls College, Oxford

Table of Contents

A Century of Time, John LucasThe Metaphysics of Time, Michael TooleyCan There be a Literary Philosophy of Time?, Gregory CurrieOn Relativity, Time Reckoning and the Topology of Time Series, Roberto TorrettiThe Development of Machian Themes in the Twentieth Century, Julian BarbourOn the Emergence of Time in Quantum Gravity, Jeremy Butterfield and Chris IshamThe Problem of Time in Quantum Geometrodynamics, Karel KucharTense, Indexicality and Consequence, James HigginbothamThe Perception of Time: Philosophical Views and Psychological Evidence, Michel Treisman