- Title Pages
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Observers and time
- 3 Subjective images of time
- 4 Cultural images of time
- 5 Literary images of time
- 6 Objective images of time
- 7 Mathematical images of time
- 8 Illusionary images of time
- 9 Causal images of time
- 10 Physics and time
- 11 Biological time
- 12 The dimensions of time
- 13 The architecture of time
- 14 Absolute time
- 15 The reparametrization of time
- 16 Origins of relativity
- 17 Special relativity
- 18 Generalized transformations
- 19 General relativistic time
- 20 Time travel
- 21 Imaginary time
- 22 Irreversible time
- 23 Discrete time
- 24 Time and quanta
- 25 Temporal correlations
- 26 Time reversal
- 27 Quantized spacetime
- 28 Epilogue
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Causal images of time
Causal images of time
- Chapter:
- (p.96) 9 Causal images of time
- Source:
- Images of Time
- Author(s):
George Jaroszkiewicz
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter discusses notions of causality, determinism, blame, teleology, and chaos, looking at views from Antiquity to recent times. It reviews the comments of Leibniz, Locke, and Mill on causality. The chapter rephrases Reichenbach’s mark method of discussing causality in terms of the generalized proposition concept introduced in Chapter 2, concluding that Reichenbach’s approach assumes that the past is unique. The chapter discusses the use of Lyapunov exponents as a measure of chaos in classical deterministic systems, emphasizing that chaos is a relationship between an observer and a system under observation, rather than as an intrinsic attribute of that system alone.
Keywords: causality, determinism, blame, teleology, Leibniz, Locke, Mill, Reichenbach mark method, chaos, Lyapunov exponent
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Observers and time
- 3 Subjective images of time
- 4 Cultural images of time
- 5 Literary images of time
- 6 Objective images of time
- 7 Mathematical images of time
- 8 Illusionary images of time
- 9 Causal images of time
- 10 Physics and time
- 11 Biological time
- 12 The dimensions of time
- 13 The architecture of time
- 14 Absolute time
- 15 The reparametrization of time
- 16 Origins of relativity
- 17 Special relativity
- 18 Generalized transformations
- 19 General relativistic time
- 20 Time travel
- 21 Imaginary time
- 22 Irreversible time
- 23 Discrete time
- 24 Time and quanta
- 25 Temporal correlations
- 26 Time reversal
- 27 Quantized spacetime
- 28 Epilogue
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
