Real Time II

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Psychology Press, 1998 - Philosophy - 146 pages

Real Time II extends and evolves DH Mellor's classic exploration of the philosophy of time, Real Time. This new book answers such basic metaphysical questions about time as: how do past, present and future differ, how are time and space related, what is change, is time travel possible? His Real Time dominated the philosophy of time for fifteen years. Real TIme II will do the same for the next twenty. GET /english/edu/Studying_at_SU/History_of_Literature.html HTTP/1.0

 

Contents

3
32
The Atheory of clocks
39
The irreducibility of Abeliefs
58
Change and the flow of time 2 3
70
The contradiction in the flow of time
72
In defence of McTaggart
75
McTaggart and truth conditions
78
A growing Bworld?
81
The causation of stasis
100
In defence of factual causation
101
Causation and time 1 Perception action and time
105
Causal and temporal order
106
Simultaneous causation
108
Ordering facts events and times
111
Causation and change 5 The causal form of inner sense
115
The direction of time 1 Earlier and later
118

Change 1 The Btheory of change 2
84
Events and things
85
Changes and properties
87
Change difference and identity
89
Properties as relations to times 9 10
90
The Bfacts of change
93
No experience of the flow of space
95
Events facts and causation 1 Events as changes
97
events or facts?
98
Causes and effects of changes
99
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120
Experiencing the direction of time
122
The linearity of time 1 Backward time travel
125
The chances of causation
128
The logical independence of causal facts
131
The impossibility of causal loops
132
Bibliography
136
Index 70
143
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