Time, change, and freedom : an introduction to metaphysics /
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| Author / Creator: | Smith, Quentin, 1952- |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 1995. |
| Description: | vi, 218 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1723903 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. The Finite and the Infinite
- Dialogue 1. The Beginning of Time
- Dialogue 2. The Infinity of Past and Future Time
- Dialogue 3. The Relational and Substantival Theories of Time
- Dialogue 4. Eternity
- Part II. Time and Identity
- Dialogue 5. The Problem of Change
- Dialogue 6. The Passage of Time
- Dialogue 7. Personal Identity
- Dialogue 8. Personal Identity and Time
- Part III. The Nature of Freedom
- Dialogue 9. Fatalism and Tenseless Time
- Dialogue 10. God, Time and Freedom
- Dialogue 11. Freedom, Determinism and Responsibility
- Appendix: Physical Time and the Universe
- Section A. Physical Time in Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity
- Section B. Physical Time in Current Cosmologies
- Index