A Treatise On Time And Space

Author : J. R. Lucas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429685170

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Originally published in 1976. This comprehensive study discusses in detail the philosophical, mathematical, physical, logical and theological aspects of our understanding of time and space. The text examines first the many different definitions of time that have been offered, beginning with some of the puzzles arising from our awareness of the passage of time and shows how time can be understood as the concomitant of consciousness. In considering time as the dimension of change, the author obtains a transcendental derivation of the concept of space, and shows why there has to be only one dimension of time and three of space, and why Kant was not altogether misguided in believing the space of our ordinary experience to be Euclidean. The concept of space-time is then discussed, including Lorentz transformations, and in an examination of the applications of tense logic the author discusses the traditional difficulties encountered in arguments for fatalism. In the final sections he discusses eternity and the beginning and end of the universe. The book includes sections on the continuity of space and time, on the directedness of time, on the differences between classical mechanics and the Special and General theories of relativity, on the measurement of time, on the apparent slowing down of moving clocks, and on time and probability.

Author : John Randolph Lucas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Space and time
ISBN : LCCN:10014069

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A Treatise on Time and Space [By] J.R. Lucas by John Randolph Lucas Pdf

Author : John Roudolph Lucas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1153305995

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Author : John Randolph Lucas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:989445524

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A Treatise on Time and Space by John Randolph Lucas Pdf

Author : Barry Francis Dainton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773594845

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Time and Space by Barry Francis Dainton Pdf

Surveying both historical debates and modern physics, Barry Dainton evaluates the central arguments in a clear and unintimidating way that keeps conceptual issues comprehensible to students with little scientific or mathematical training and makes the philosophy of space and time accessible to anyone trying to come to grips with the complexities of this challenging subject. With over 100 original line illustrations and a full glossary of terms, Time and Space keeps the requirements of students firmly in sight and will continue to serve as the ideal textbook for philosophy of time and space courses.

Author : Richard T. W. Arthur
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192849076

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Leibniz on Time, Space, and Relativity by Richard T. W. Arthur Pdf

In this book, Arthur gives fresh interpretations of Gottfried Leibniz's theories of time, space, and the relativity of motion, based on a thorough examination of Leibniz's manuscripts as well as his published papers. These are analysed in historical context, but also with an eye to their contemporary relevance. Leibniz's views on relativity have been extremely influential, first on Mach, and then on Einstein, while his novel approach to geometry in his analysis situs inspired many later developments in geometry. Arthur expounds the latter in some detail, explaining its relationship to Leibniz's metaphysics of space and the grounding of motion, and defending Leibniz's views on the relativity of motion against charges of inconsistency. The brilliance of his work on time, though, has not been so well appreciated, and Arthur attempts to remedy this through a detailed discussion of Leibniz's relational theory of time, showing how it underpins his theory of possible worlds, his complex account of contingency, and his highly original treatment of the continuity of time, providing formal treatments in an appendix. In other appendices, Arthur provides translations of previously untranslated writings by Leibniz on analysis situs and on Copernicanism, as well as an essay on Leibniz's philosophy of relations. In his introductory chapter he explains how the framework for the book is provided by the interpretation of Leibniz's metaphysics he defended in his earlier Monads, Composition, and Force (OUP 2018, winner of the 2019 annual JHP Book Prize for best book in the history of philosophy published in 2018).

Author : Lawrence Sklar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520340701

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Space, Time, and Spacetime by Lawrence Sklar Pdf

In this book, Lawrence Sklar demonstrates the interdependence of science and philosophy by examining a number of crucial problems on the nature of space and time—problems that require for their resolution the resources of philosophy and of physics. The overall issues explored are our knowledge of the geometry of the world, the existence of spacetime as an entity over and above the material objects of the world, the relation between temporal order and causal order, and the problem of the direction of time. Without neglecting the most subtle philosophical points or the most advanced contributions of contemporary physics, the author has taken pains to make his explorations intelligible to the reader with no advanced training in physics, mathematics, or philosophy. The arguments are set forth step-by-step, beginning from first principles; and the philosophical discussions are supplemented in detail by nontechnical expositions of crucial features of physical theories.

Author : Christopher Ray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134968497

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Time, Space and Philosophy by Christopher Ray Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible introduction to the philosophy of space and time. Ray considers in detail the central questions of space and time which arizse from the ideas of Zeno, Newton, Mach, Leibniz and Einstein. Time, Space and Philosophy extends the debate in many areas:absolute simultaneity is examined as well as black holes, the big bang and even time travel. Time, Space and Philosophy will be invaluable to the student of philosophy and science and will be of considerable interest to mathematics students. The clear, non-technical approach should also make it suitable to for the general reader.

Author : Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811229395

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A Treatise on Stars by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge Pdf

An ethereal new collection that is “visceral with intellection” (David Lau) Winner of the Bollingen Prize Finalist for the National Book Award Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Finalist for the PEN Open Book Award Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Prize A Treatise on Stars extends Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s intensely phenomenological poetics to the fiery bodies in a “field of heaven…outside spacetime.” Long, lyrical lines map a geography of interconnected, interdimensional intelligence that exists in all places and sentient beings. These are poems of deep listening and patient waiting, open to the cosmic loom, the channeling of daily experience and conversation, gestalt and angels, dolphins and a star-visitor beneath a tree. Family, too, becomes a type of constellation, a thought “a form of organized light.” All of our sense are activated by Berssenbrugge’s radiant lines, giving us a poetry of keen perception grounded in the physical world, where “days fill with splendor, and earth offers its pristine beauty to an expanding present.”

Author : E. Norman Pearson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Theosophy
ISBN : LCCN:sa65007294

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Space, Time, and Self by E. Norman Pearson Pdf

Author : Thomas R. Scott
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231545761

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The Universe as It Really Is by Thomas R. Scott Pdf

The universe that science reveals to us can seem far outside the comfort zone of the human mind. Subjects near and far open up dizzying vistas, from the infinitesimal to the colossal. Humanity, the unlikely product of uncountable coincidences on unimaginable scales, inhabits a tumultuous universe that extends from our immediate environs to the most distant galaxies and beyond. But when the mind balks at the vertiginous complexity of the universe, science unveils the elegance amid the chaos. In this book, Thomas R. Scott ventures into the known and the unknown to explain our universe and the laws that govern it. The Universe as It Really Is begins with physics and the building blocks of the universe—time, gravity, light, and elementary particles—and chemistry’s ability to explain the interactions among them. Scott, with the assistance of James Lawrence Powell, next tours the earth and atmospheric sciences to explain the forces that shape our planet and then takes off for the stars to describe our place in the cosmos. He provides vivid introductions to our collective scientific inheritance, narrating discoveries such as the shape of the atom and the nature of the nucleus or how we use GPS to measure time and what that has to do with relativity. A clear demonstration of the power of scientific reasoning to bring the incomprehensible within our grasp, The Universe as It Really Is gives an engrossing account of just how much we do understand about the world around us.

Author : Francis Lyall,Paul B. Larsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317051978

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Space Law by Francis Lyall,Paul B. Larsen Pdf

The opening of space to exploration and use has had profound effects on society. Remote sensing by satellite has improved meteorology, land use and the monitoring of the environment. Satellite television immediately informs us visually of events in formerly remote locations, as well as providing many entertainment channels. World telecommunication facilities have been revolutionised. Global positioning has improved transport. This book examines the varied elements of public law that lie behind and regulate the use of space. It also makes suggestions for the development and improvement of the law, particularly as private enterprise plays an increasing role in space.

Author : John Randolph Lucas
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037831182

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Space, Time, and Causality by John Randolph Lucas Pdf

This book introduces the concepts of space, time, and causality to physicists so that their presuppositions may be explicitly articulated, examined, and justified.

Author : W[illiam] P[arkinson] Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Dynamics
ISBN : HARVARD:32044021233770

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A Treatise on Dynamics by W[illiam] P[arkinson] Wilson Pdf

Author : Wilson (W. P.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RMS:RMSAUCON000001458$$$A

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A Treatise on Dynamics by Wilson (W. P.) Pdf