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    Time and the Metaphysics of Relativity (2001)
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
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    ISBN: 9789401735322
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 284 p) , online resource
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 84
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy and science. ; Metaphysics ; Ontology ; Religion—Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: The larger project of which this volume forms part is an attempt to craft a coherent doctrine of divine eternity and God's relationship to time. Central to this project is the integration of the concerns of theology with the concept of time in relativity theory. Unfortunately, theologians and philosophers of religion do not in general understand Einstein's theories, whereas physicists and philosophers of science, under the influence of verificationism, have largely focused philosophical reflection on spatiotemporal concepts given by physics. There is thus a paucity of integrative literature dealing with God and relativity theory. The collapse of positivism and the rejuvenation of metaphysics have led to a renewed scrutiny of the metaphysical foundations of relativity theory and the concept(s) time found therein. This volume provides an accessible and philosophically informed examination of the concept of time in relativity, the ultimate aim being the achievement of a tenable theological synthesis
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface1. The Historical Background of Special Relativity -- 2. Einstein's Special Theory -- 3. Time Dilation and Length Contraction -- 4. Empirical Confirmation of Special Relativity -- 5. Two Relativistic Interpretations -- 6. The Classical Concept of Time -- 7. The Positivistic Foundations of Relativity Theory -- 8. The Elimination of Absolute Time -- 9. Absolute Time and Relativistic Time -- 10. God, Time, and Relativity -- 11. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Proper Name Index.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-3532-2
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    God, Time, and Eternity : The Coherence of Theism II: Eternity (2001)
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
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    ISBN: 9789401717151
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 321 p) , online resource
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy and science. ; Metaphysics ; Ontology ; Religion—Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Those who think about time are thinking deeply. Those who think about God are thinking even more deeply still. To try to think about both at once is to press the very limits of human understanding. Undeterred, this is precisely the project which William Lane Craig sets for himself in this study: to try to grasp the nature of divine eternity, to understand what is meant by the affirmation that God is eternal, to formulate a coherent doctrine of God's relationship with time. In this highly original and ground-breaking work, Craig brings together discussions in the philosophy of time and space, philosophy of language, phenomenology, philosophy of science, Special and General Relativity, classical cosmology, quantum mechanics, and so forth, with the concerns of philosophy of religion and theology, in order to craft a philosophically informed and scientifically tenable doctrine of divine eternity and God's relationship to time
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 The Case for Divine Timelessness2 Timelessness and Personhood -- 3 Timelessness and Divine Action -- 4 Timelessness and Divine Knowledge -- 5 The Classical Concept of Time -- 6 God’s Time and Relativistic Time -- 7 God, Time, and Relativity -- 8 Creatio ex nihilo -- 9 God and the Beginning of Time -- Proper Name Index.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1715-1
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    The Tenseless Theory of Time : A Critical Examination (2000)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789401734738
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 262 p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 294
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy and science. ; Metaphysics ; Ontology ; Phenomenology ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: The central question in the philosophy of time is whether time is tensed or tenseless, viz., whether the moments of time are objectively past, present or future, or whether they are ordered merely by the tenseless temporal relations earlier than, simultaneous with, and later than. In this book and the companion volume The Tensed Theory of Time: A Critical Examination, Craig undertakes the first thorough appraisal of the arguments for and against the tensed and tenseless theories of time. The discussions range widely over issues in the philosophy of language, phenomenology, relativity theory, philosophy of space and time, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion. The Tenseless Theory of Time sets out to discover whether the ineliminability of tense from language and our experience of tense warrants a belief in its objective ontological status, or whether the defeaters raised by McTaggart's paradox and the Myth of Passage serve to undermine any warrant that the tensed theory of time may be supposed to enjoy
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-3473-8
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    The Tensed Theory of Time : A Critical Examination (2000)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789401593458
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 294 p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 293
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy and science. ; Metaphysics ; Ontology ; Phenomenology ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: The central question in the philosophy of time is whether time is tensed or tenseless, viz., whether the moments of time are objectively past, present or future, or whether they are ordered merely by the tenseless temporal relations earlier than, simultaneous with, and later than. In this book and the companion volume The Tenseless Theory of Time: A Critical Examination, Craig undertakes the first thorough appraisal of the arguments for and against the tensed and tenseless theories of time. The discussions range widely over issues in the philosophy of language, phenomenology, relativity theory, philosophy of space and time, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion. The Tensed Theory of Time sets out to discover whether the ineliminability of tense from language and our experience of tense warrants a belief in its objective ontological status, or whether the defeaters raised by McTaggart's paradox and the Myth of Passage serve to undermine any warrant that the tensed theory of time may be supposed to enjoy
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9345-8
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