Time and Space - Hardcover

Dainton, Barry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844651908 ISBN 13: 9781844651900

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

The first edition (2001) of this title quickly established itself on courses on the philosophy of time and space. This fully revised and expanded new edition sees the addition of chapters on Zeno's paradoxes, speculative contemporary developments in physics, and dynamic time, making the second edition, once again, unrivalled in its breadth of coverage. Surveying both historical debates and the ideas of modern physics, Barry Dainton evaluates the central arguments in a clear and unintimidating way and is careful to keep the conceptual issues throughout comprehensible to students with little scientific or mathematical training. The book makes the philosophy of space and time accessible for 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, the book has the requirements of students firmly in sight and will continue to serve as an essential textbook for philosophy of time and space courses.

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Review

"Indispensable... it's very difficult to see how the job of introducing time and space to the philosophically interested could have been better done." --Philosophical Books

"An immensely rich and informative discussion. It should be on all space and time reading lists, both for philosophers and for physicists." --Robin Le Poidevin, Philosophy

"An impressive work which deserves a wide audience" --Graham Nerlich, Australasian Journal of Philosophy

About the Author

Barry Dainton is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1844651908
• ISBN 13: 9781844651900
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 448