What makes time special? /

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Author / Creator:	Callender, Craig, 1968- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Description:	xvii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Time -- Philosophy. Time -- Philosophy.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11330119

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ISBN:	0198797303 9780198797302
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	As we navigate through life we instinctively model time as having a flowing present that divides a fixed past from open future. This model develops in childhood and is deeply saturated within our language, thought and behavior, affecting our conceptions of the universe, freedom and the self. Yet as central as it is to our lives, physics seems to have no room for this flowing present. This book demonstrates this claim in detail and then turns to two novel positive tasks. First, by looking at the world in the spatial directions it shows that physics is not 'spatializing time' as is commonly alleged. Second, if the flowing present is an illusion, it is a deep one worthy of explanation. The author develops a picture whereby the temporal flow arises as an interaction effect between an observer and the physics of the world. Using insights from philosophy, cognitive science, biology, psychology and physics, the theory claims that the flowing present model of time is the natural reaction to the perceptual and evolutionary challenges thrown at us. Modeling time as flowing makes sense even if it misrepresents it.
Other form:	Online version : Callender, Craig. What makes time special?. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017. 9780191839603

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Boxes
1. The Problem of Time
1.1. Manifest Time
1.1.1. Now
1.1.2. Flow
1.1.3. Past/Future asymmetry
1.1.4. Is manifest time universal?
1.2. Physical Time
1.2.1. No manitest time
1.2.2. What makes time special?
1.3. The "Two Times" Problem
1.4. From There to Here
2. Lost Time: Relativity Theory
2.1. Classical Physics
2.1.1. Recovering space and time
2.1.2. Classical ideal clocks and manifest time
2.1.3. Trautman-Cartan theory
2.2. Relativity
2.3. Where's Time?
2.4. Minkowski Spacetime
2.5. Lorentzian Time
2.6. Outside Minkowski: Domes, Donuts, and Diamonds
2.7. Conclusion
3. Tearing Spacetime Asunder
3.1. Cauchy Time
3.2. "Unique" Time Functions
3.3. Time, Stuff, and Laws
3.4. Conclusion
4. Quantum Becoming?
4.1. Quantum Mechanics
4.2. Popper's Experiments Crucis
4.2.1. Quantum preferred frames and time
4.2.2. Caveats and alternatives
4.2.3. The coordination problem
4.3. Quantum Becoming via Collapses?
4.4. Conclusion
5. Intimations of Quantum Gravitational Time
5.1. The Best of Times: "Asynchronous Becoming" in Causal Sets
5.1.1. The basic kinematics of CST
5.1.2. Taking growth seriously
5.2. The Worst of Times: Disappearing Time in Canonical Quantum Gravity
5.2.1. Semiclassical time
5.2.2. Justifying the approximations
5.3. Conclusion
6. The Differences Between Time and Space
6.1. The Project Reconceived
6.2. Time in Physics
6.2.1. The metric
6.2.2. Dimensionality
6.2.3. Mobility asymmetry
6.2.4. Direction of time
6.2.5. Natural kind asymmetry
6.3. The Fragmentation of Time
6.4. Conclusion
7. Laws, Systems, and Time
7.1. System Laws and Time
7.2. Time is the Great Informer
7.3. Binding Time
7.3.1. One-dimensionality
7.3.2. Closed timelike curves
7.3.3. The direction of time
7.3.4. Natural kind asymmetry
7.4. Metaphysical Variations
7.5. Questions and Connections
7.6. Conclusion
8. Looking at the World Sideways
8.1. Strength and Well-posed Cauchy Problem
8.2. The Worlds
8.3. Proposal
8.4. The Argument
8.5. Illustration
8.6. Is It Time?
8.7. Turning Pages in Non-temporal Direction
8.7.1. Pages of light
8.7.2. Pages of time
8.8. Conclusion
9. Do We Experience the Present?
9.1. Metaphysics of Time
9.2. The Problem of the Presence of Experience
9.3. The Temporal Knowledge Argument
9.4. From Metaphysics to Psychology: Perceived Synchrony
9.4.1. Temporal ventriloquism
9.4.2. Temporal recalibration
9.4.3. Comments
9.5. Interlude: Measuring Subjective Simultaneity
9.6. Exploding the Now
9.7. Does Synchrony Pop Out?
9.8. Conclusion
10. Stuck in the Common Now
10.1. Disagreement and the Case of PH
10.2. Manufacturing the Now: Signals, Speed, and Stamps
10.2.1. Time stamps not needed
10.2.2. The common now
10.3. Wiggling in Time vs Wiggling in Space
10.4. Conclusion
11. The Flow of Time: Stitching the World Together
11.1. Sharpening Focus
11.2. Meet IGUS
11.3. Getting IGUS Stuck in Time
11.4. Outfitting IGUS
11.4.1. Sensing motion and change
11.4.2. Specious present
11.4.3. Felt duration
11.5. Memories and Flow
11.6. The Enduring Witness
11.7. From Flowing Selves to Animated Time
11.8. Temporal Decentering and the Self
11.9. The Acting Self
11.10. The Explanation of Passage
11.11. Conclusion
12. Explaining the Temporal Value Asymmetry
12.1. "Thank Goodness That's Over"
12.2. The Proximal/Distant Asymmetry
12.3. The Humean Solution
12.4. The Knowledge Asymmetry
12.5. The Affect Asymmetry
12.6. Explaining the PF Asymmetry
12.7. Other Temporal Biases
12.8. Explaining Other Time Biases
12.9. Conclusion
13. Moving Past the ABCs of Time
13.1. Analytic Philosophy of Time: A Potted and Biased History
13.2. The Explanatory Challenge
13.2. The ABCs of Physics
13.4. Eliminating Tense?
13.5. Conclusion
14. Putting It All Together
14.1. Common Structure
14.2. A Unified Flowing Now
14.3. Animals
14.4. An Illusion?
14.5. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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