What makes time special

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The flow of time is a deep, significant and universal aspect of human life. Yet it remains a mystery and many dismiss the flow of time as illusory. Craig Callender explores this puzzle, and offers a fascinating explanation of why creatures experience time as flowing - even if, as physics suggests, it isn't.



As we navigate through life we instinctively model time as having a flowing present that divides a fixed past from open future. This model develops in childhood and is deeply saturated within our language, thought and behavior, affecting our conceptions of the universe, freedom and the self. Yet as central as it is to our lives, physics seems to have no room for this flowing present. What Makes Time Special? demonstrates this claim in detail and then turns to two novel positive tasks. First, by looking at the world "sideways" - in the spatial directions -- it shows that physics is not "spatializing time" as is commonly alleged. Even relativity theory makes significant distinctions between the spacelike and timelike directions, often with surprising consequences. Second, if the flowing present is an illusion, it is a deep one worthy of explanation. The author develops a picture whereby the temporal flow arises as an interaction effect between an observer and the physics of the world. Using insights from philosophy, cognitive science, biology, psychology and physics, the theory claims that the flowing present model of time is the natural reaction to the perceptual and evolutionary challenges thrown at us. Modeling time as flowing makes sense even if it misrepresents it.

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What Makes Time Special?

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As we navigate through life we instinctively model time as having a flowing present that divides a fixed past from open future this model develops in childhood and is deeply saturated within our language thought and behavior affecting our conceptions of the universe freedom and the self yet as Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Oxford Handbooks - The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time

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As the study of time has flourished in the physical and human sciences the philosophy of time has come into its own as a lively and diverse area of academic research philosophers investigate not just the metaphysics of time and our experience and representation of time but the role of time in et Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Oxf Handb Philosophy Of Time Ohip P

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This is the first comprehensive book on the philosophy of time leading philosophers discuss the metaphysics of time our experience and representation of time the role of time in ethics and action and philosophical issues in the sciences of time especially quantum mechanics and relativity theory Op voorraad. Nu besteld, woensdag in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 06 juli 2017

Aantal pagina's: 364

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Craig Callender

Hoofduitgeverij: Oxford University Press

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 156 mm

Product hoogte: 33 mm

Product lengte: 234 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 162 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 26 mm

Verpakking lengte: 241 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 756 g

EAN: 9780198797302

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