The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time

As the study of time has flourished in the physical and human sciences, the philosophy of time has come into its own as a lively and diverse area of academic research. Philosophers investigate not just the metaphysics of time, and our experience and representation of time, but the role of time in ethics and action, and philosophical issues in the sciences of time, especially wi...

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As the study of time has flourished in the physical and human sciences, the philosophy of time has come into its own as a lively and diverse area of academic research. Philosophers investigate not just the metaphysics of time, and our experience and representation of time, but the role of time in ethics and action, and philosophical issues in the sciences of time, especially with regard to quantum mechanics and relativity theory. This Handbook presents twenty-three specially written essays by leading figures in their fields: it is the first comprehensive collaborative study of the philosophy of time, and will set the agenda for future work.

Craig Callender: Introduction
I: TIME AND METAPHYSICS
1: Yuri Balashov: Persistence
2: Craig Bourne: Fatalism and the Future
3: Carl Hoefer: Time and Chance Propensities
4: Ulrich Meyer: Tense and Modality
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Craig Callender: Introduction
I: TIME AND METAPHYSICS
1: Yuri Balashov: Persistence
2: Craig Bourne: Fatalism and the Future
3: Carl Hoefer: Time and Chance Propensities
4: Ulrich Meyer: Tense and Modality
5: M. Joshua Mozersky: Presentism
6: Jean Paul Van Bendegem: The Possibility of Discrete Time
7: Dean Zimmerman: Presentism and the Space-Time Manifold
II: THE DIRECTION OF TIME
8: Douglas Kutach: The Asymmetry of Influence
9: Huw Price: The Flow of Time
10: Jill North: Time in Thermodynamics
III: TIME, ETHICS, AND EXPERIENCE
11: David O. Brink: Prospects for Temporal Neutrality
12: Barry Dainton: Time, Passage, and Immediate Experience
13: Shaun Gallagher: Time in Action
14: Christoph Hoerl and Teresa McCormack: Time in Cognitive Development
15: Jenann Ismael: Temporal Experience
IV: TIME IN CLASSICAL AND RELATIVISTIC PHYSICS
16: John Earman: Sharpening the Electromagnetic Arrow(s) of Time
17: Jean-Pierre Luminet: Time, Topology, and the Twin Paradox
18: Steven Savitt: Time in the Special Theory of Relativity
19: Lawrence Sklar: Time in Classical Dynamics
20: Chris Smeenk and Christian Wüthrich: Time Travel and Time Machines
V: TIME IN A QUANTUM WORLD
21: Frank Arntzenius: The CPT Theorem
22: Jan Hilgevoord and David Atkinson: Time in Quantum Mechanics
23: Claus Kiefer: Time in Quantum Gravity
Index
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