书目名称 | Time of Nature and the Nature of Time |
副标题 | Philosophical Perspe |
编辑 | Christophe Bouton,Philippe Huneman |
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概述 | Offers a new approach to the issue of time in natural sciences: physics, biology, ecology and geology.Examines the central question of whether or not the notions of time in the various sciences are id |
丛书名称 | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science |
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描述 | .This volume addresses the question of time from the perspective of the time of nature. Its aim is to provide some insights about the nature of time on the basis of the different uses of the concept of time in natural sciences. Presenting a dialogue between philosophy and science, it features a collection of papers that investigate the representation, modeling and understanding of time as they appear in physics, biology, geology and paleontology. It asks questions such as: whether or not the notions of time in the various sciences are reducible to the same physical time, what status should be given to timescale differences, or what are the specific epistemic issues raised by past facts in natural sciences. .The book first explores the experience of time and its relation to time in nature in a set of chapters that bring together what human experience and physics enable metaphysicians, logicians and scientists to say about time. Next, it studies time in physics, including some puzzling paradoxes about time raised by the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. The volume then goes on to examine the distinctive problems and conceptions of time in the life sciences. It explores the |
出版日期 | Book 2017 |
关键词 | Block Universe; Deep Time; Evolutionary Biology; Philosophy of Physics; Philosophy of Time; Time Scale |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53725-2 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-85227-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-53725-2Series ISSN 0068-0346 Series E-ISSN 2214-7942 |
issn_series | 0068-0346 |
copyright | Springer International Publishing AG 2017 |