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Time, Change and Freedom : An Introduction to Metaphysics.
Title:
Time, Change and Freedom : An Introduction to Metaphysics.
Author:
Oaklander, L. Nathan.
ISBN:
9780203980668
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (226 pages)
Contents:
Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I The finite and the infinite -- Dialogue 1 The beginning of time -- GLOSSARY OF TERMS -- STUDY QUESTIONS -- FURTHER READING -- Dialogue 2 The infinity of past and future time -- GLOSSARY OF TERMS -- STUDY QUESTIONS -- FURTHER READING -- Dialogue 3 The relational and substantival theories of time -- GLOSSARY OF TERMS -- STUDY QUESTIONS -- FURTHER READING -- Dialogue 4 Eternity -- GLOSSARY OF TERMS -- STUDY QUESTIONS -- FURTHER READING -- Part II Time and identity -- Dialogue 5 The problem of change -- NOTE -- GLOSSARY OF TERMS -- STUDY QUESTIONS -- FURTHER READING -- Dialogue 6 The passage of time -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY OF TERMS -- STUDY QUESTIONS -- FURTHER READING -- Dialogue 7 Personal identity -- NOTE -- GLOSSARY OF TERMS -- STUDY QUESTIONS -- FURTHER READING -- Dialogue 8 Personal identity and time -- GLOSSARY OF TERMS -- STUDY QUESTIONS -- FURTHER READING -- Part III The nature of freedom -- Dialogue 9 Fatalism and tenseless time -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY OF TERMS -- STUDY QUESTIONS -- FURTHER READING -- Dialogue 10 God, time and freedom -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY OF TERMS -- STUDY QUESTIONS -- FURTHER READING -- Dialogue 11 Freedom, determinism and responsibility -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY OF TERMS -- STUDY QUESTIONS -- FURTHER READING -- Appendix Physical time and the universe -- Section A Physical time in Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity -- INTRODUCTION -- THE THEORY OF ABSOLUTE SPACE -- THE TWO POSTULATES OF EINSTEIN'S SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY -- THE STRANGE BEHAVIOR OF LIGHT -- THE RELATIVITY OF THE LENGTH OF TEMPORAL INTERVALS -- THE RELATIVITY OF SIMULTANEITY -- ABSOLUTE TEMPORAL RELATIONS IN THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY -- THE TENSED THEORY OF TIME AND EINSTEIN'S SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY -- NOTES.

Section B Physical time in current cosmologies -- THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY -- COSMIC TIME -- PARALLEL TIME-SERIES -- TREE TIME -- INTERSECTING TIME -- SPLITTING TIME -- CLOSED TIME -- A CYCLICAL HISTORY IN LINEAR TIME -- A REVERSING HISTORY IN LINEAR TIME -- TIME-TRAVEL INTO THE PAST -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY OF TERMS -- STUDY QUESTIONS -- FURTHER READING -- Index.
Abstract:
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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