Time of Nature and the Nature of Time Philosophical Perspectives of Time in Natural Sciences /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Bouton, Christophe (Editor), Huneman, Philippe (Editor)
Summary:XIII, 403 p. 82 illus., 29 illus. in color.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 326
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53725-2
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Time Between Metaphysics and Natural Sciences: From Physics to Biology (Christophe Bouton)
  • Part I. The Experience of Time and the Scientific Framing of Time
  • Chapter 2. Passage, Flow, and the Logic of Temporal Perspectives (Jenann Ismael)
  • Chapter 3. Time of Logics and Time of Physics (Carlo Proietti)
  • Chapter 4. Time Variable and Time Scales in Natural Systems and their Modeling (Annick Lesne)
  • Chapter 5. On Time and the Varieties of Science (Kristie Miller)
  • Part II. Time Paradoxes in Physics
  • Chapter 6. Is the Future already Present? The Special Theory of Relativity and the Block Universe View (Christophe Bouton)
  • Chapter 7. Dispelling the Quantum Spooks – a Clue that Einstein Missed? (Huw Price)
  • Chapter 8. On time, causation and explanation in the causally symmetric Bohmian model of quantum mechanics (Joseph Berkovitz)
  • Chapter 9. The Representation of Time in Discrete Mechanics (Anouk Barberousse)
  • Part III. Dealing with deep time (Paleontology)
  • Chapter 10. Paleontology: Outrunning Time (John Huss)
  • Chapter 11. The Biologist’s time and Deep Time: essay on the psychology of the Paleobiologist (Armand J. de Ricqlès)
  • Chapter 12. The Making of Paleontological Time (Pascal Tassy)
  • Part IV. Time of the Evolution (Evolutionary and developmental Biology)
  • Chapter 13. Repetition and Reversibility in Evolution: Theoretical Population Genetics (Jean Gayon)
  • Chapter 14. Macroevolution and Microevolution: Issues of Time Scale in Evolutionary Biology (Philippe Huneman)
  • Chapter 15. The timing of development (Antonine Nicoglou).