The Metaphysics of Time

A Dialogue

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The Metaphysics of Time

A Dialogue

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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 positions on such topics as the finite nature of time, absolute versus relational time, and Zeno's paradoxes of motion. The book draws on the theories of numerous philosophers, including Aristotle, Quine, Chrysippus, St. Augustine, Earman, Van Fraassen, Liebniz, and Hawking.

Table of Contents

1 Table of Contents
Chapter 2 1. Introduction
Chapter 3 2. Fatalism, Free Will, and Foreknowledge
Chapter 4 3. Mind, the Metric, and Conventionality
Chapter 5 4. Time Travel and Backward Causation
Chapter 6 5. Time's Origin, and Relationism vs. Substantivalism
Chapter 7 6. McTaggart, Tensed Facts, and Time's Flow
Chapter 8 7. Presentism, the Block Universe, and Perduring Objects
Chapter 9 8. The Arrow of Time
Chapter 10 9. Zeno's Paradoxes and Supertasks
Chapter 11 10. Glossary

Product details

Published Oct 16 2009
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 150
ISBN 9780742560314
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 231 x 154 mm
Series New Dialogues in Philosophy
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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