Time, Language, and Ontology : The World from the B-Theoretic Perspective Hardback
by M. Joshua (Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy, Associate Profess Mozersky
Part of the Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought series
Hardback
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This book brings together, in a novel way, an account of the structure of time with an account of our language and thought about time.
Joshua Mozersky argues that it is possible to reconcile the human experience of time, which is centred on the present, with the objective conception of time, according to which all moments are intrinsically alike.
He defends a temporally centreless ontology along with a tenseless semantics that is compatible with - and indeed helps to explain the need for - tensed language and thought.
This theory of time also, it is argued, helps to elucidate the nature of change and temporal passage, neither of which need be denied nor relegated to the realm of subjective experience only. The book addresses a variety of topics including whether the past and future are real; whether temporal passage is a genuine phenomenon or merely a subjective illusion; how the asymmetry of time is to be understood; the nature of representation; how something can change its properties yet retain its identity; and whether objects are three-dimensional or four-dimensional.
It is a wide-ranging examination of recent issues in metaphysics, philosophy of language and the philosophy of science and presents a compelling picture of the relationship of human beings to the spatiotemporal world.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:29/01/2015
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- ISBN:9780198718161
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:29/01/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198718161
