Of Time and Lamentation. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Tallis, Professor Raymond
• Contents: Cover page; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Overture; Personal (1) ; Personal (2) ; Part I Killing time ; Chapter 1 Introduction: seeing time ; 1.1 Vision: from implicit to explicit time ; 1.2 The hegemony of vision in explicit time sense ; 1.3 The visibly hidden ; 1.4 Conclusion ; Addendum Human and animal vision and temporal depth ; Chapter 2 Time as "the fourth dimension" ; 2.1 From moving shadows to the science of mechanics: the seductive idea of time as space ; 2.2 Against space-like notions of time ; 2.3 Is there an arrow of time? 2.4 The myth of time travel: the idea of pure movement in time 2.5 Further reflections on time as a dimension ; Chapter 3 Mathematics and the book of nature ; 3.1 From place to decimal place 1: geometrization of space ; 3.2 From place to decimal place 2: geometry becomes number ; 3.3 x, y, z, t: space and time stripped bare ; 3.4 Space: beyond the reach of numbers ; 3.5 Some consequences of mathematical literalism ; 3.6 Mathematics and reality: the world as a system of magnitudes ; Addendum 1 Some sideways glances at Henri Bergson ; Addendum 2 A note on intelligibility and reality. Chapter 4 Clocking time 4.1 The mysterious verb "to time" ; 4.2 Light and dark; daytime and night-time: shadow clocks and beyond ; 4.3 The pulse and the pendulum ; 4.4 What do clocks (really) do? ; 4.5 Telling the time: "at" -- from clock to o'clock ; 4.6 Orchestrating our lives ; 4.7 Towards deep time ; 4.8 Further reflections ; Epilogue Finding lost time: physics and philosophy ; Part II Human time ; Chapter 5 In defence of tense ; 5.1 The attack on tense: the physicists ; 5.2 The attack on tense: the philosophers ; 5.3 Tense regained: time and the conscious subject. Chapter 6 Living time: now 6.1 Now ; 6.2 The present ; 6.3 Presence ; Chapter 7 The past: locating the snows of yesteryear ; 7.1 The presence of the past ; 7.2 Out of sight into mind: getting the past into focus ; 7.3 Where, then, are those snows? Memory and history ; 7.4 A last backward look at memory and the past ; 7.5 Coda ; Addendum A note on memory ; Chapter 8 Concerning tomorrow (today) ; 8.1 Introducing the future: all our tomorrows ; 8.2 The contested openness of the future ; 8.3 Final reflections on the future ; Chapter 9 Beyond time: temporal thoughts on eternity. 9.1 The idea of eternity 9.2 The relationship between time and eternity ; 9.3 Was the word in the beginning? ; Part III Finding time ; Chapter 10 (What) is time? ; 10.1 Defining time: preliminary reflections ; 10.2 Time in itself ; 10.3 The stuff of time ; 10.4 Time and change ; 10.4 Time and change ; 10.5 Objective and subjective time ; 10.6 Concluding comments ; Addendum A note on the singularity ; Chapter 11 The onlooker: causation and explicit time; 11.1 Introduction ; 11.2 Time and causation ; 11.3 The onlooker ; 11.4 Final Observations on time, change and causation.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Agenda Publishing
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 115; Time -- Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics; Time -- Philosophy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1911116223; 9781911116226
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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