Title | Perspectives on Time [electronic resource] / edited by Jan Faye, Uwe Scheffler, Max Urchs |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1997 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8875-1 |
Descript | VIII, 472 p. online resource |
I: The Philosophy of Time -- Three Views on the Relationship Between Time and Reality -- On Now-Ambiguities -- The Objectivity of Time-Flux and the Direction of Time -- Fleeting Things and Permanent Stuff: A Priorean Project in Real Time -- Existence in Time: From Substance to Process -- Direction of Time: A Problem of Ontology, not of Physics -- Tense and Existence -- II: The Physics of Time -- Do Times Exist? -- Is the Mark Method Time Dependent? -- Causation, Reversibility and the Direction of Time -- The Physical Worldview and the Reality of Becoming -- III: The Logic of Time -- Relations between Sets of Time Points and Quasi-Linear Orderings -- Linguistic and Tense Logical Considerations on the Generality of a Three-Point Structure of Tenses -- Time, Truth and Existence -- Dimensions of Time -- Time and Negation -- A New Tempo-Modal Logic for Emerging Truth -- A. N. Priorโs Ideas on the Relation Between Semantics and Axiomatics for Temporal Logic -- Name Index