Asymmetries In Time: Problems in the Philosophy of Science (Bradford Books) - Softcover

Horwich, Paul

 
9780262580885: Asymmetries In Time: Problems in the Philosophy of Science (Bradford Books)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0262580888 ISBN 13: 9780262580885
Verlag: MIT Press, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

Time is generally thought to be one of the more mysterious ingredients of the universe. In this intriguing book, Paul Horwich makes precise and explicit the interrelationships between time and a large number of philosophically important notions. Ideas of temporal order and priority interact in subtle and convoluted ways with the deepest elements in our network of basic concepts. Confronting this conceptual jigsaw puzzle, Horwich notes that there are glaring differences in how we regard the past and future directions of time. For example, we can influence the future but not the past, and can easily gain knowledge of the past but not of the future. Moreover we see a profusion of decay processes but little spontaneous generation of order; time appears to "flow" in one privileged direction, not the other; and we tend to explain phenomena in terms of antecedent circumstances, rather than subsequent ones. Horwich explains such time asymmetries and examines their bearing on the nature of time itself. Asymmetries in Time covers many notoriously difficult problems in the philosophy of science: causation, knowledge, entropy, explanation, time travel, rational choice (including Newcomb's problem), laws of nature, and counterfactual implication—and gives a unified treatment of these matters. The book covers an unusually broad range of topics in a lucid and nontechnical way and includes alternative points of view in the philosophical literature.

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Paul Horwich is Associate Professor of Philosophy at MIT.

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Verlag
MIT Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1987
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0262580888
ISBN 13 
9780262580885
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
234
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