Perspectives on Time / edited by Jan Faye, Uwe Scheffler, Max Urchs

Scheffler, Uwe ; Urchs, Max

Englisch

Dordrecht : Springer, 1997

Online-Ressource (VII, 472 p) : digital

Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe) : ISBN 9789048147748

Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe) : ISBN 9780792343301

Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe) : ISBN 9789401588768

978-94-015-8875-1

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-90-481-4774-8 (Druckausgabe)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8875-1

*Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics -- Philosophy ; Science -- Philosophy ; Logic ; Metaphysics ; Ontology ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy.

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: BC1-199

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 160;

Book Industry Communication: HPL

bisacsh: PHI011000

Perspectives on Time deals with the problem of time from different perspectives such as logic, physics and philosophy. It contains 18 previously unpublished papers, written by philosophers from various European countries, as well as a large introduction about the history and the main situation in the respective fields today. The prominent issues which are addressed in this book concern the direction of time, the reality of tenses, the objectivity of becoming, the existence in time, and the logical structures of reasoning about time. The papers have been written based on different approaches, partly depending on whether the authors subscribe to an A-theory or a B-theory of time. Audience: Due to the broad variety of approaches the book contains important contributions both for philosophers, philosophers of science, logicians and for scientists working in the field of language and AI

 

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