The Structure of Time

ISBN-13: 9781138394063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 272 str.

W. H. Newton-Smith

Opis

Originally published in 1980. The author's arguments here provide grounds for rejecting both the absolutist and the relativist theories of time and presents two new theories, shifting the traditional debate to a consideration of time as a theoretical structure and theoretical framework.

Spis treści

Preface  1. The Nature of Time  2. Time and Change  3. The Topology of Time I: The Linearity of Time  4. The Topology ofTime II: The Unity of Time  5. The Topology of Time III: The Beginning of Time  6. The Topology of Time IV: The Micro-aspects  7. The Metric of Time  8. The Special Theory of Relativity  9. The Direction of Time  10. Towards a Positive Theory.  Appendix: Properties of Relations

O autorze

W. H. Newton-Smith