Objective becoming / Bradford Skow.

By: Skow, Bradford [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: PaperbackDescription: xi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780198713272; 9780198776697; 0198776691; 0198713274Subject(s): Time -- Philosophy | Becoming (Philosophy) | Becoming (Philosophy) | Time -- Philosophy | Zeitbewusstsein | ZeitwahrnehmungDDC classification: 115 LOC classification: BD638 | .S56 2015Online resources: Table of contents | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
Contents:
Introduction : time passes? -- The block universe -- What might robust passage be? -- The moving spotlight -- Growing blocks and branching times -- The moving spotlight theory is consistent -- How fast does time pass? -- The challenge from relativity -- Relativity and the passage of time -- Can we move through time? -- Passage and experience, I -- Passage and experience, II -- Concluding thoughts : passage and time-biased preferences.
Summary: Examines theories of time that are based on metaphor, especially the moving spotlight theory which holds that "presentness" moves along the series of times from the past into the future, and proposes ways in which the moving spotlight theory may be made compatible with the theory of relativity.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : time passes? -- The block universe -- What might robust passage be? -- The moving spotlight -- Growing blocks and branching times -- The moving spotlight theory is consistent -- How fast does time pass? -- The challenge from relativity -- Relativity and the passage of time -- Can we move through time? -- Passage and experience, I -- Passage and experience, II -- Concluding thoughts : passage and time-biased preferences.

Examines theories of time that are based on metaphor, especially the moving spotlight theory which holds that "presentness" moves along the series of times from the past into the future, and proposes ways in which the moving spotlight theory may be made compatible with the theory of relativity.

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