Objective Becoming
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Objective Becoming
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Author : Bradford Skow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Objective Becoming written by Bradford Skow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Philosophy categories.
Bradford Skow presents an original defense of the 'block universe' theory of time, often said to be a theory according to which time does not pass. Along the way, he provides in-depth discussions of alternative theories of time, including those in which there is 'robust passage' of time or 'objective becoming': presentism, the moving spotlight theory of time, the growing block theory of time, and the 'branching time' theory of time. Skow explains why the moving spotlight theory is the best of these arguments, and rebuts several popular arguments against the thesis that time passes. He surveys the problems that the special theory of relativity has been thought to raise for objective becoming, and suggests ways in which fans of objective becoming may reconcile their view with relativistic physics. The last third of the book aims to clarify and evaluate the argument that we should believe that time passes because, somehow, the passage of time is given to us in experience. He isolates three separate arguments this idea suggests, and explains why they fail.
The Art Of Becoming Infinite
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Author : Gabriella Stanchina
language : en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date : 2025-01-27
The Art Of Becoming Infinite written by Gabriella Stanchina and has been published by Open Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-01-27 with Philosophy categories.
Mou Zongsan is arguably the most important Chinese philosopher of the twentieth century. This work delves into the philosopher's exploration of self and subjectivity, setting Mou Zongsan’s theories against Western paradigms. Mou contrasts Western ‘horizontal’ model, based on the separation of subject and object, and aimed at cognitive enhancement, with the ‘vertical’ view dominant in the Confucian and Daoist tradition. The vertical model has, at its core, a practical-performative interpretation of the subject, based on the moral self-cultivation. This spiritual cultivation enables the finite human being to ‘become infinite,’ embodying the original unlimited moral mind that constitutes the Self and the universe. In addressing fundamental questions of self-consciousness and self-identity, the book contextualizes Mou's philosophy within contemporary discussions in neuroscience and cognitive science. By placing Mou's ideas in dialogue with Western thought—examining thinkers like Husserl, Kant, Hegel, and Lévinas—as well as with Daoist and Confucian vision of mind, this work opens a pathway to understanding selfhood beyond purely epistemological boundaries. This book will be of interest to readers and scholars interested in the contemporary debate about mind and the Self, as well as those intrigued by the new horizons opened by a cross-cultural Western-Chinese approach to subjectivity.
God Time And Eternity
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Author : W.L. Craig
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2001-09-30
God Time And Eternity written by W.L. Craig and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-30 with Philosophy categories.
In this highly original and ground-breaking work, the author brings together discussions in the philosophy of time and space, philosophy of language, phenomenology, philosophy of science, Special and General Relativity, classical cosmology, quantum mechanics, and so forth, with the concerns of philosophy of religion and theology, in order to craft a philosophically informed and scientifically tenable doctrine of divine eternity and God's relationship to time.
The Ontology Of Spacetime Ii
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2008-06-17
The Ontology Of Spacetime Ii written by and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-17 with Science categories.
The sixteen papers collected in this volume are expanded and revised versions of talks delivered at the Second International Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime, organized by the International Society for the Advanced Study of Spacetime (John Earman, President) at Concordia University (Montreal) from 9 to 11 June 2006. Most chapters are devoted to subjects directly relating to the ontology of spacetime. The book starts with four papers that discuss the ontological status of spacetime and the processes occurring in it from a point of view that is first of all conceptual and philosophical. The focus then slightly shifts in the five papers that follow, to considerations more directly involving technical considerations from relativity theory. After this, Time, Becoming and Change take centre stage in the next five papers. The book ends with two excursions into relatively uncharted territory: a consideration of the status of Kaluza-Klein theory, and an investigation of possible relations between the nature of spacetime and condensed matter physics, respectively. - Space and time in present-day physics and philosophy - Relatively low level of technicality, easily accessible - Introduction from scratch of the debates surrounding time - Broad spectrum of approaches, coherently represented
The Language Of Time
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Author : Richard M. Gale
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-09-01
The Language Of Time written by Richard M. Gale and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-09-01 with Philosophy categories.
First published in 1968, The Language of Time clarifies certain large-scale features of ordinary or common-sense concept of time by using linguistic analysis or ordinary language philosophy. The author does so by studying the language of time in its everyday employment. The book is divided into four parts. Part one explores McTaggart’s paradox and the language of time. Part two is devoted to A-Determinations and B-Relations and discusses the most central issue separating the A and B theories—the relation between tensed and tenseless discourse. Part three examines the logical asymmetries between the Past and the Future and Part four deals with the concept of temporal becoming. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of philosophy.
The Cambridge Companion To Adorno
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Author : Tom Huhn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-07-05
The Cambridge Companion To Adorno written by Tom Huhn and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
The great German philosopher and aesthetic theorist Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) was one of the main philosophers of the first generation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. An accomplished musician Adorno first focused on the theory of culture and art. Later he turned to the problem of the self-defeating dialectic of modern reason and freedom. In this collection of essays, imbued with the most up-to-date research, a distinguished roster of Adorno specialists explore the full range of his contributions to philosophy, history, music theory, aesthetics and sociology.
Outlines Of Lectures On The History Of Philosophy
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Author : John Jay Elmendorf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
Outlines Of Lectures On The History Of Philosophy written by John Jay Elmendorf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with Philosophy categories.
Memories Of The Future Being Memoirs Of The Years 1915 1972 Written In The Yearof Grace 1988
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Author : Ronald Arbuthnott Knox
language : en
Publisher: Otbebookpublishing
Release Date : 2024-03-18
Memories Of The Future Being Memoirs Of The Years 1915 1972 Written In The Yearof Grace 1988 written by Ronald Arbuthnott Knox and has been published by Otbebookpublishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-18 with Fiction categories.
Excerpt: "One day you were young, and you too wanted to write forecasts; and you too found that to envisage the future was arduous, that old ways of thinking and status quo ante judgments of value imposed themselves upon your mind, and made you despair of the true estimate and the adequate phrase. And you found that, however unclouded your own faculty of prognostication, you searched in vain for the magic touch which would interpret the future for your older contemporaries, take them forward with you and make them see it with your eyes, your presuppositions. If you could be now what you were then, though it be farther than ever removed from the new days of which this book is an awful warning, you would be more disposed to bear a young man's nightmares with patience, and allow for him where he has exaggerated, and pardon him where he has erred."
The Scientist As Philosopher
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Author : Friedel Weinert
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2005-10-18
The Scientist As Philosopher written by Friedel Weinert and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-18 with Science categories.
How do major scientific discoveries reshape their originators’, and our own, sense of reality and concept of the physical world? The Scientist as Philosopher explores the interaction between physics and philosophy. Clearly written and well illustrated, the book first places the scientist-philosophers in the limelight as we learn how their great scientific discoveries forced them to reconsider the time-honored notions with which science had described the natural world. Then, the book explains that what we understand by nature and science have undergone fundamental conceptual changes as a result of the discoveries of electromagnetism, thermodynamics and atomic structure. Even more dramatically, the quantum theory and special theory of relativity questioned traditional assumptions about causation and the passage of time. The author concludes that the dance between science and philosophy is an evolutionary process, which will keep them forever entwined.
God And Time
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Author : Gregory E. Ganssle
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2001-09-28
God And Time written by Gregory E. Ganssle and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-28 with Religion categories.
Editor Gregory Ganssle calls on four Christian philosophers to present and defend their views on the place of God in a time-bound universe. The positions taken up here include divine timeless eternity, eternity as relative timelessness, timelessness and omnitemporality, and unqualified divine temporality.