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The Metaphysics of Time Bradley Dowden

The Metaphysics of Time By Bradley Dowden

The Metaphysics of Time by Bradley Dowden


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The Metaphysics of Time: A Dialogue by Bradley Dowden

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.

The Metaphysics of Time Reviews

A promising new series that offers noteable contemporary philosophers the opportunity to write books in a neglected format that has proven historically to be remarkably fruitful. -- Steven M. Cahn

About Bradley Dowden

Bradley Dowden is professor of philosophy at California State University, Sacramento. He has written one text in philosophy, Logical Reasoning (Thomson-Wadsworth), and is a general editor of the online Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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

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NLS9780742560314
9780742560314
0742560317
The Metaphysics of Time: A Dialogue by Bradley Dowden
New
Paperback
Rowman & Littlefield
2009-10-16
150
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