Time and Space
- 2th ed.
- London Routledge 2013
- 464p
includes index and biblioraphy
Ontology: the existence of space and time Questions of structure Physics and metaphysics Time: the great divide Two frameworks Matters terminological McTaggart on time`s unreality Could time be unreal? Change as the essence of time McTaggart`s A-paradox Other routes to the same place The nature of A-properties The overdetermination problem Consequences The Block universe Time without passage Passage and experience A-truth in a B-world Another A-paradox The indispensability of the A-framework Questions of attitude B-theories of change Emergent time Asymmetries within time The direction of time Content-asymmetries: a fuller picture Entropy The causal route Causation in question Time in reverse Fundamental forks Tensed time Tense versus dynamism Taking tense seriously McTaggart revisited Is tense enough? Dynamic time The Growing Block Overdetermination Dynamism without tense The thinning tree How can a block grow? The eternal past The varieties of Presentism Solipsistic Presentism Many-Worlds Presentism Dynamic Presentism Compound Presentism Time and consciousness The micro-phenomenology of time Time travel Conceptions of void Space as void The unseen constrainer Connection in question Substantivalism: a closer look Relationism: a closer look Two concepts of distance Two conceptions of motion Matters terminological Space: the classical debate The last of the magicians Galileo Descartes The argument from indiscernibility The argument from sufficient reason The methodological argument Absolute motion Inertial motion The argument for real inertial motions The argument from inertial effects Stalemate? The Leibnizian response The Machian response The Sklar response Motion in spacetime Newtonian spacetime Neo-Newtonian spacetime The only reasonable view? A threat vanquished The charge of explanatory impotence A rebuttal Newtonian spacetime relationism Neo-Newtonian spacetime relationism Relationism redux Curved space New angles on old problems Flat and curved spaces The fifth postulate Intrinsic curvature Topology Conventionalism Realism versus anti-realism Tangible space Manifestations of curvature The detachment thesis The explanatory challenge A solitary hand Global structures Spatial anti-realism Foster on matter and space The intrinsic and the inscrutable Modes of deviancy Intrinsic versus functional geometry The nomological thesis Nomological contingency Realism rejected Geometrical pluralism Zeno and the continuum I Motion and the continuum Numbering the continuum The "Dichotomy" The paradox of plurality Cantor`s continuum Plurality, measure and metric The Dichotomy revisited Appendix Zeno and the continuum II The "Arrow" Velocity as intrinsic The "Stadium" Could our spacetime be discrete? The standard continuum: basic concerns and further puzzles Are more points the answer? Extension as fundamental Special relativity Time, space and Einstein Lightspeed Compensation or revolution? Simultaneity Minkowski spacetime Relativity and reality Reality unconfined Compatibilism Time fragmented Absolute simultaneity: the quantum connection