Time And Causation
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Time And Causation
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Author : Michael Tooley
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1999
Time And Causation written by Michael Tooley and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Philosophy categories.
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Time Tense And Causation
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Author : Michael Tooley
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1997
Time Tense And Causation written by Michael Tooley and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Philosophy categories.
Michael Tooley presents a major new philosophical study of time and its relation to causation. The nature of time has always been one of the most fascinating and perplexing problems of philosophy; it has in recent years become the focus of vigorous debate between advocates of rival theories. The traditional, `tensed' accounts of time which hold that time has a direction and that the flow of time is part of the nature of the universe have been challenged by `tenseless' accounts of time, according to which past, present, and future are merely subjective features of experience, rather than objective features of events. Time, Tense and Causation offers a new approach, in many ways intermediate between these two rivals. Tooley shares with tensed approaches the views that the universe if dynamic, and that the past and present are real while the future is not; but he rejects the view that this points to the existence of irreducible tensed facts. Tooley's approach accounts for time in terms of its relation to causation; he argues that the direction of time is based upon the direction of causation, and that the key to understanding the dynamic nature of the universe is to understand the nature of causation. He analyses tensed concepts, and discusses semantic issues about truth and time, Finally, addressing the formidable difficulties posed for tensed accounts of time by the Special Theory of Relativity, he suggests that a modified version of the theory, compatible with the account of time in this book, is to be preferred to the standard version. Time, Tense, and Causation is rich in sophisticated and stimulating discussions of many of the deepest problems of metaphysics. It will be essentail reading for anyone specialising in this area of philosophy.
Time Causality And The Quantum Theory
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Author : Henry Mehlberg
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1980
Time Causality And The Quantum Theory written by Henry Mehlberg 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 1980 with Causality (Physics) categories.
Time And Causality
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Author : Marc J. Buehner
language : en
Publisher: Frontiers E-books
Release Date : 2014-08-06
Time And Causality written by Marc J. Buehner and has been published by Frontiers E-books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-06 with Causation categories.
The problem of how humans and other intelligent systems construct causal representations from non-causal perceptual evidence has occupied scholars in cognitive science for many decades. Most contemporary approaches agree with David Hume that patterns of covariation between two events of interest are the critical input to the causal induction engine, irrespective of whether this induction is believed to be grounded in the formation of associations (Shanks & Dickinson, 1987), rule-based evaluation (White, 2004), appraisal of causal powers (Cheng, 1997), or construction of Bayesian Causal Networks (Pearl, 2000). Recent research, however, has repeatedly demonstrated that an exclusive focus on covariation while neglecting contiguity (another of Hume’s cues) results in ecologically invalid models of causal inference. Temporal spacing, order, variability, predictability, and patterning all have profound influence on the type of causal representation that is constructed. The influence of time upon causal representations could be seen as a bottom-up constraint (though current bottom-up models cannot account for the full spectrum of effects). However, causal representations in turn also constrain the perception of time: Put simply, two causally related events appear closer in subjective time than two (equidistant) unrelated events. This reversal of Hume’s conjecture, referred to as Causal Binding (Buehner & Humphreys, 2009) is a top-down constraint, and suggests that our representations of time and causality are mutually influencing one another. At present, the theoretical implications of this phenomenon are not yet fully understood. Some accounts link it exclusively to human motor planning (appealing to mechanisms of cross-modal temporal adaptation, or forward learning models of motor control). However, recent demonstrations of causal binding in the absence of human action, and analogous binding effects in the visual spatial domain, challenge such accounts in favour of Bayesian Evidence Integration. This Research Topic reviews and further explores the nature of the mutual influence between time and causality, how causal knowledge is constructed in the context of time, and how it in turn shapes and alters our perception of time. We draw together literatures from the perception and cognitive science, as well as experimental and theoretical papers. Contributions investigate the neural bases of binding and causal learning/perception, methodological advances, and functional implications of causal learning and perception in real time.
Time Travel Causation And The Direction Of Time
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Author : Talia Sellars
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Time Travel Causation And The Direction Of Time written by Talia Sellars and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Causation categories.
In this thesis I combine a definition of time-travel with issues in the philosophy of the direction of time and causation. I undertake some conceptual analysis of the notion of time-travel and I then ask what implications about time we must accept given the definition of time-travel that I have proposed. I then offer a new way of representing the taxonomy of views on time, and I argue that A-theoretic views (which I define as those that are realist about the moving present) are incoherent. In doing so, I pay particular attention to McTaggart's paradox and some analogues of it. Furthermore, I show that A-theoretic views are incompatible with my definition of time-travel, and that the problematic feature is the A-theorists' commitments surrounding the ordering of time, and the moving present. I show that it is the A- versus B-theoretic dispute, and not the Eternalist versus Presentist dispute, that is most relevant to time-travel debates. This leads me to a discussion on the philosophy of the direction of time. I argue that there is no way to objectively pick out one of the two directions in time as the privileged direction of time, and that the direction of time is given by convention only. I reject the thermodynamic/entropic account of the direction of time, and endorse a causal account on which the direction of time and the direction of causation cannot come apart. Additionally, I appeal to psychological features of agents in time (such as memory accumulation) to account for the assignment of a direction to time, and for the experience of a passage of time. I then show that direction of time plays a crucial role in time-travel stories, and that on my combination of a causal theory with a psychological or memory accumulation theory we can give a tidy account of what is happening with time in time-travel stories.
Time Causality And The Quantum Theory
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Author : S. Mehlberg
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Time Causality And The Quantum Theory written by S. Mehlberg 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 2012-12-06 with Philosophy categories.
Time And Causality Across The Sciences
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Author : Samantha Kleinberg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-26
Time And Causality Across The Sciences written by Samantha Kleinberg 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 2019-09-26 with Computers categories.
Explores the critical role time plays in our understanding of causality, across psychology, biology, physics and the social sciences.
Time Causality And The Quantum Theory
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Author : S. Mehlberg
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1980-11-30
Time Causality And The Quantum Theory written by S. Mehlberg and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-11-30 with Science categories.
An intermittent but mentally quite disabling illness prevented Henry Mehlberg from becoming recognized more widely as the formidable scholar he was, when at his best. During World War II, he had lived in hiding under the false identity of an egg farmer, when the Nazis occupied his native Poland. After relatively short academic appointments at the University of Toronto and at Princeton University, he taught at the University of Chicago until reaching the age of normal retirement. But partly at the initiative of his Chicago colleague Charles Morris, who had preceded him to a 'post-retirement' profes sorship at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and with the support of Eugene Wigner, he then received an appointment at that University, where he remained until his death in 1979. In Chicago, he organized a discussion group of scholars from that area as a kind of small scale model of the Vienna Circle, which met at his apart ment, where he lived with his first wife Janina, a mathematician. It was during this Chicago period that the functional disturbances from his illness were pronounced and not infrequent. The very unfortunate result was that colleagues who had no prior knowledge of the caliber of his writings in Polish and French or of his very considerable intellectual powers, had little incentive to read his published work, which he had begun to write in English.
Space Time And Causality
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Author : Richard Swinburne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982-12-31
Space Time And Causality written by Richard Swinburne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-12-31 with categories.
On Time Causality And The Block Universe
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Author : Anthony C. Proctor
language : en
Publisher: Clink Street Publishing
Release Date : 2022-02-15
On Time Causality And The Block Universe written by Anthony C. Proctor and has been published by Clink Street Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-15 with Science categories.
Many of us harbour deep questions on subjects such as the origin of the universe, the concepts of time and causality, the nature of consciousness and free will, the mind-body problems of philosophy, the relationship between mathematics and physics, and more. Conventional answers will usually be from fundamental physics (often deeply mathematical) or philosophy (often very abstract). This work takes a different view of reality by substituting mathematical determinism for causal determinism, thereby making it clear why mathematics so adequately describes our observations and measurements. It then deconstructs many aspects of experience - all of which taint our supposedly objective study of the universe - to see how they emerge from a timeless block universe. Subjects such as quantum theory, change, choice, probability, thermodynamics, and consciousness all have to be disassembled. The conclusion is consistent with both mathematics and experience, provides an answer that is immune from the question of 'first cause', and yet does not lead to further questions, albeit in an unexpected way.