The Asymmetric Nature of Time Accounting for the Open Future and the Fixed Past
This open access monograph offers a detailed study and a systematic defense of a key intuition we typically have, as human beings, with respect to the nature of time: the intuition that the future is open, whereas the past is fixed. For example, whereas it seems unsettled whether there will be a fou...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2022, 2022
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
Series: | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. How is the Asymmetry between the Open Future and the Fixed Past to be characterized?
- 3. A Model for the Asymmetry
- 4. Reconciling the Asymmetry with Contemporary Physics
- 5. Conclusion
- Bibliography