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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A serious book about various aspects of time, from cosmology, entropy and time travel to knowledge, causation, and explanation. I must admit that the level of difficulty was a bit too high for me so I didn't really gain much from reading this book. Also, the author cares mostly for analytical rigor so his style of presentation promptly suffocated my interest. I was not very convinced by the parts about entropy and time travel. Some of his theories seemed quite vacuous, particularly the one about time travel being possible while improbable coincidences would have to make it impossible for a person to kill his earlier self. Certain questions about time can definitely be answered better by science than by philosophy. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Time is generally thought to be one of the more mysterious ingredients of the universe. In this intriguing book, Paul Horwich makes precise and explicit the interrelationships between time and a large number of philosophically important notions. Ideas of temporal order and priority interact in subtle and convoluted ways with the deepest elements in our network of basic concepts. Confronting this conceptual jigsaw puzzle, Horwich notes that there are glaring differences in how we regard the past and future directions of time. For example, we can influence the future but not the past, and can easily gain knowledge of the past but not of the future. Moreover we see a profusion of decay processes but little spontaneous generation of order; time appears to "flow" in one privileged direction, not the other; and we tend to explain phenomena in terms of antecedent circumstances, rather than subsequent ones. Horwich explains such time asymmetries and examines their bearing on the nature of time itself. Asymmetries in Time covers many notoriously difficult problems in the philosophy of science: causation, knowledge, entropy, explanation, time travel, rational choice (including Newcomb's problem), laws of nature, and counterfactual implication--and gives a unified treatment of these matters. The book covers an unusually broad range of topics in a lucid and nontechnical way and includes alternative points of view in the philosophical literature. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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