The Asymmetric Nature of Time : Accounting for the Open Future and the Fixed Past

The Asymmetric Nature of Time Accounting for the Open Future and the Fixed Past

This open access monograph offers a detailed study and a systematic defense of a key intuition we typically have, as human beings, with respect to the nature of time: the intuition that the future is open, whereas the past is fixed. For example, whereas it seems unsettled whether there will be a fou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Grandjean, Vincent (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2022.
Edición:1st ed. 2022.
Colección:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, 468
Materias:
Science > Philosophy.
Ontology.
Metaphysics.
Relativity (Physics).
Gravitation.
Quantum physics.
Philosophy of Science.
Alternative Relativity.
Quantum Physics.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009684815006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. How is the Asymmetry between the Open Future and the Fixed Past to be characterized?
  • 3. A Model for the Asymmetry
  • 4. Reconciling the Asymmetry with Contemporary Physics
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Bibliography.

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