Time and uncertainty /

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Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
Description:	xvi, 261 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The study of time, 0170-9704 ; v. 11 Study of time ; 11.
Subject:	Time -- Philosophy. Time -- Philosophy.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5276593

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Other authors / contributors:	Harris, Paul (Paul A.) Crawford, Michael.
ISBN:	9004138110 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Contributors
Foreword
President's Welcoming Remarks: My Uncertainties About Time
Section I. Fracture and Rupture
Preface to Section I
Chapter 1. Mathematics and Time
Chapter 2. Time and Uncertainty: A Metaphorical Equation
Chapter 3. Thoreau's Sense of History: Uncertainty, Identity, Representation
Chapter 4. "Ejected from the Present and Its Certainties": The Indeterminate Temporality of Hypertext
Chapter 5. Get Real: Narrative and Uncertainty in Fiction
Chapter 6. Time: The Uncertainty of Frame or Content
Chapter 7. Time and Uncertainty in Elizabeth Bishop's Poems
Chapter 8. Francis Bacon: Retrospective Uncertainties
Chapter 9. A Walk in Looking-Glass Land: Reflections on the Art-Historical 'Big Picture'
Section II. Rapture and Structure
Preface to Section II
Chapter 10. The Composer As Prophet In Time and Uncertainty
Chapter 11. The Seeds of Time: Time and Uncertainty in Shakespeare
Chapter 12. A Time to Regender: The Transformation of Roman Time
Chapter 13. Relationships between Subjective Time and Information Processed (Reduction of Uncertainty)
Chapter 14. A Cognitive Interpretation of the Notion of "Uncertainty in Time" within the Framework of Modern Physics
Chapter 15. The Uncertainty of the Future
Chapter 16. Darwinian Uncertainty
Index

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