Images of Time: Mind, Science, Reality
George Jaroszkiewicz
Abstract
Time is fascinating and important to everyone. This book does two things: it reviews a great range of images of time, that is, theories of time, from a diversity of perspectives: historical, religious, biological, mathematical, and scientific. In addition to a wide-ranging discussion of many aspects of time, the book shows how a spreadsheet can be used easily to explore various aspects of time such as time travel and light cones in relativity. But it goes further. It introduces the concept of generalized proposition, which can be used by the reader to distinguish those images of time that are ... More
Keywords: theories of time, arrows of time, generalized propositions, literary images, science fiction, mathematical images, scientific images, philosophical images, cultural images
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198718062 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2016 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718062.001.0001 |
