Time and Space : Second Edition

Surveying both historical debates and modern physics, Barry Dainton evaluates the central arguments in a clear and unintimidating way that keeps conceptual issues comprehensible to students with little scientific or mathematical training and makes the philosophy of space and time accessible to anyone trying to come to grips with the complexities of this challenging subject. With over 100 original line illustrations and a full glossary of terms, Time and Space keeps the requirements of students firmly in sight and will continue to serve as the ideal textbook for philosophy of time and space courses. Cover 1 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Preface to the second edition 12 Preface to the first edition 14 1. Preliminaries 18 2. McTaggart on time's unreality 30 3. The Block universe 44 4. Asymmetries within time 61 5. Tensed time 80 6. Dynamic time 85 7. Time and consciousness 120 8. Time travel 138 9. Conceptions of void 162 10. Space: the classical debate 181 11. Absolute motion 199 12. Motion in spacetime 211 13. Curved space 230 14. Tangible space 250 15. Spatial anti-realism 262 16. Zeno and the continuum I 284 17. Zeno and the continuum II 306 18. Special relativity 330 19. Relativity and reality 345 20. General relativity 360 21. Spacetime metaphysics 385 22. Strings 404 Notes 424 Glossary 444 Web resources 458 Bibliography 460 Untitled 472 This fully revised edition of this standard work on the philosophy of time and space includes two new chapters on Zeno's paradoxes, new material on dynamic time, speculative contemporary developments in physics, and time and consciousness, making the second edition, once again, unrivalled in its breadth of coverage.