Time and Space

Surveying both historical debates and modern physics, Barry Dainton evaluates the central arguments in a clear and unintimidating way that keeps conceptual issues comprehensible to students with little scientific or mathematical training and makes the philosophy of space and time accessible to anyone trying to come to grips with the complexities of this challenging subject. With over 100 original line illustrations and a full glossary of terms, Time and Space keeps the requirements of students firmly in sight and will continue to serve as the ideal textbook for philosophy of time and space courses.

Table of Contents

1. Preliminaries

2. Mc Taggart on time’s unreality

3. The Block universe

4. Asymmetries within time

5. Tensed time

6. Dynamic time

7. Time and consciousness

8. Time travel

9. Conceptions of void

10. Space: the classical debate

11. Absolute motion

12. Motion in spacetime

13. Curved space

14. Tangible space

15. Spatial anti-realism

16. Zeno and the continuum I

17. Zeno and the continuum II

18. Special relativity

19. Relativity and reality

20. General relativity

21 . Spacetime metaphysics

22. Strings

About the Author

Barry Dainton is professor of philosophy at the University of Liverpool.