Einstein vs. Bergson an Enduring Quarrel on Time

This book brings together papers from a conference that took place in the city of L'Aquila, 4-6 April 2019, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the earthquake that struck on 6 April 2009. Philosophers and scientists from diverse fields of research debated the problem that, on 6 April 1922, d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Campo, Alessandra, editor (editor), Gozzano, Simone, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter 2021.
Colección:Transcodification ; Volume 3.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745193506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface: The Times Are Many
  • Introduction
  • Table of Contents
  • PART ONE: SOME PRELIMINARY QUESTIONS
  • Who Is Entitled to Talk about Time? Philosophers or Physicists?
  • Einstein vs. Bergson, Scientism vs. Humanism
  • Is Time Unreal?
  • PART TWO: BERGSONIAN ISSUES
  • The Eternal Quarrel on Time
  • Some Contemporary Reflections on Bergson's Time and Free Will
  • Duration and Becoming in Bergson's Metaphysics
  • Time as Form: Lessons from the Bergson-Einstein Dispute
  • Peter and Paul: a Ghost Story?
  • The Test of Time: Human and Cosmic Time
  • PART THREE: THE NATURE OF TIME, THE TIME OF NATURE
  • The Time of Physics
  • One Time, Two Times, or No Time?
  • The Ontological Roots of Temporality
  • On the Notion of Processuality in Whitehead: Concrescence and Transition Correlated
  • Time and Experience in Physics and Philosophy: Whiteheadian Reflections on Bergson, Einstein, and Rovelli
  • PART FOUR: METAPHYSICS, LOGIC, NEUROSCIENCE, BIOLOGY AND COSMOLOGY OF TIME
  • No Time for (No) Change
  • Between the Time of Physics and the Time of Metaphysics, the Time of Tense Logic?
  • Reinterpreting the Einstein-Bergson Debate through Contemporary Neuroscience
  • Today's ecological relevance of Bergson-Einstein debate on time
  • The Age of the Universe
  • List of Contributors
  • Index.