A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time

by: Adrian Bardon (Author)

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition: 2nd

Publication Date: May 7, 2024

Language: English

Print Length: 232 pages

ISBN-10: 0197684106

ISBN-13: 9780197684108

Book Description

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Adrian Bardon’s A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time–from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond. Bardon covers subjects such as time and change, the experience of time, physical and metaphysical approaches to the nature of time, the direction of time, time travel, time and freedom of the will, and scientific and philosophical approaches to cosmology and the beginning of time. He employs helpful illustrations and keeps technical language to a minimum in bringing the resources of over 2500 years of philosophy and science to bear on some of humanity’s most fundamental and enduring questions.
This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Adrian Bardon’s A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time–from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond. Bardon covers subjects such as time and change, the experience of time, physical and metaphysical approaches to the nature of time, the direction of time, time travel, time and freedom of the will, and scientific and philosophical approaches to cosmology and the beginning of time. He employs helpful illustrations and keeps technical language to a minimum in bringing the resources of over 2500 years of philosophy and science to bear on some of humanity’s most fundamental and enduring questions.