Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Vol. 1: Essay on the Causal Theory of Time
An intermittent but mentally quite disabling illness prevented Henry Mehlberg from becoming recognized more widely as the formidable scholar he was, when at his best. During World War II, he had lived in hiding under the false identity of an egg farmer, when the Nazis occupied his native Poland. Aft...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1980, 1980
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1980 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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Table of Contents:
- to Volumes I and II
- I: The Causal Theory of Time in the Works of Its Principal Representatives
- I. Leibniz and the Beginnings of the Causal Theory of Time
- II. Kant’s Phenomenalist Interpretation of the Causal Theory of Time
- III. Lechalas’ Adaptation of the Causal Theory of Time to the Laws of pre-Einsteinian Physics
- IV. The Relativistic Phase of the Causal Theory of Time: The Axiomatic Systems of Robb and Carnap
- V. The Relativistic Phase of the Causal Theory of Time: The Work of Reichenbach
- VI. Russell’s Causal Explanation of Duration
- VII. Alternative Approaches to Time’s Arrow
- II: Duration and Causality
- VIII. The Intuitive Foundations of the Knowledge of Time
- IX. Physical Time
- X. Non-Physical Time
- Supplement
- 1. The Present Empirical Status of Psychophysical Parallelism
- 2. Conceptual Analysis of Psychophysical Parallelism
- Notes
- Index of Names