The arguments of time

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New York: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press (1999)
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These nine essays address fundamental questions about time in philosophy, physics, linguistics, and psychology. Are there facts about the future? Could we affect the past? In physics, general relativity and quantum theory give contradictory treatments of time. So in the current search for a theory of quantum gravity, which should give way: general relativity or quantum theory? In linguistics and psychology, how does our language represent time, and how do our minds keep track of it?

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BD638.A74 1999

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0197262074   0197263461

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10.1023/a:1010654609130
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The development of Machian themes in the twentieth century.Julian B. Barbour
On the emergence of time in quantum gravity.Jeremy Butterfield & Chris Isham
Tense, indexicality, and consequence.James Higginbotham
The problem of time in quantum geometrodynamics.Karel Kuchař
A century of time.John R. Lucas

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