Philosophies of space and time
By: edited by Howard K. Congdon.
Contributors: Congdon, Howard K., 1941-
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Dallas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Cosmology.; Ruimte-tijd-theorie.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Classical concepts of space and time. The concept of space in antiquity / Max Jammer; title: Parmenides, Zeno, Melissus / James N. Jordan; title: The atomists / James N. Jordan; title: On nature / Gorgias; title: The innate knowledge of geometrical truth / Plato; title: Time / Aristotle; title: Post Aristotelian analyses of space and time. Matter and space / Lucretius; title: Time and eternity / Plotinus; title: What then is time? / Augustine; title: Space and time in the modern period. Space and extension / René Descartes; title: Absolute space and time / Isaac Newton; title: Relative space and time / Gottfried Leibniz; title: Contemporary perspectives and issues. The relativity of time and space / Richard Taylor; title: Flatland / Edwin A. Abbott; title: Space and time / Richard Taylor; title: Newton and the infinite static universe / Alan H. Guth; title: Understanding the cosmos / Bertrand Russell; title: The plane truth / Isaac Asimov; title: Space shapes / Howard K. Congden; title: Fatalism / Richard Taylor; title: Must the future be what it is going to be? / R.D. Bradley