Time, Space, and Metaphysics - Tapa dura

Rundle, Bede

 
9780199575114: Time, Space, and Metaphysics
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ISBN 10: 0199575118 ISBN 13: 9780199575114
Editorial: OUP Oxford, 2009

Sinopsis

Time, Space, and Metaphysics engages with major philosophical questions concerning time and space, a framework for the investigation being provided by the debate between the absolutists and the relationists, so between Newton and Leibniz, and their followers. The investigation brings to the fore questions of the nature and reality of time and space, and leads on to more recent debates, such as those relating to anti-realism, time travel, temporal parts, geometry, convention, and the infinitude of time and space. These in turn raise more general issues, issues involving such concepts as those of identity, objectivity, causation, facts, and verifiability. Their examination falls within metaphysics, thought of as the investigation and analysis of fundamental philosophical concepts, but there is also metaphysics of a more contentious character, where the subject-matter is provided by propositions which transcend what can be known either through experience or by pure reasoning. In this connection, a central aim is to show how, without dismissing them as nonsensical, we may arrive at a fruitful interpretation of such propositions.

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Acerca del autor

Bede Rundle is an Emeritus Fellow in Philosophy at Trinity College, Oxford. Educated in New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington and at Oxford, he has been a Junior Research Fellow at the Queen's College, Oxford, and has held visiting appointments in North America.

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Editorial
OUP Oxford
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0199575118
ISBN 13 
9780199575114
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Número de páginas
288
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