Relational Passage of Time

Relational Passage of Time
Author: Matias Slavov
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2022-06-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 100063521X

This book defends a relational theory of the passage of time. The realist view of passage developed in this book differs from the robust, substantivalist position. According to relationism, passage is nothing over and above the succession of events, one thing coming after another. Causally related events are temporally arranged as they happen one after another along observers’ worldlines. There is no unique global passage but a multiplicity of local passages of time. After setting out this positive argument for relationism, the author deals with five common objections to it: (a) triviality of deflationary passage, (b) a-directionality of passage, (c) the impossibility of experiencing passage, (d) fictionalism about passage, and (e) the incompatibility of passage with perduring objects. Relational Passage of Time will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of time, metaphysics, and philosophy of physics.

Debates in the Metaphysics of Time

Debates in the Metaphysics of Time
Author: L. Nathan Oaklander
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2014-11-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1780934904

A selection of lively debates in the philosophy of time that outline, defend and object to contemporary issues in metaphysics, consciousness and God.

Scripts and Communication for Relationships

Scripts and Communication for Relationships
Author: James M. Honeycutt
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2011
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781433110528

Designed for classes in communication and relationships, insterpersonal communication, intrapersonal competence are provided. A downloadable teacher's guide is available on request. --Book Jacket.

Cognition, Communication, and Romantic Relationships

Cognition, Communication, and Romantic Relationships
Author: James M. Honeycutt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1135658587

This text explores how memory, communication, & social cognition function in the development of romantic relationships, and describes the stages of the development. For students of close relationships, interpersonal communication.

A Companion to the Philosophy of Time

A Companion to the Philosophy of Time
Author: Adrian Bardon
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2015-11-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1119145694

A Companion to the Philosophy of Time presents the broadest treatment of this subject yet; 32 specially commissioned articles - written by an international line-up of experts – provide an unparalleled reference work for students and specialists alike in this exciting field. The most comprehensive reference work on the philosophy of time currently available The first collection to tackle the historical development of the philosophy of time in addition to covering contemporary work Provides a tripartite approach in its organization, covering history of the philosophy of time, time as a feature of the physical world, and time as a feature of experience Includes contributions from both distinguished, well-established scholars and rising stars in the field

The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time

The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time
Author: Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 567
Release: 2015
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1107074061

Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin argue for a revolution in our cosmological ideas. Ideal for non-scientists, physicists and cosmologists.

Time, Reality and Experience

Time, Reality and Experience
Author: Craig Callender
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2002-08-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521529679

Why does time seem to flow in one direction? Can we influence the past? Is only the present real? Does relativity conflict with our common understanding of time? Could science do away with time? These questions and others about time are among the most puzzling problems in philosophy and science. In this exciting collection of original articles, eminent philosophers propose novel answers to these and other questions. Based on the latest research in philosophy and physics, these essays will be enjoyable to anyone with a speculative turn of mind.

Time and Space

Time and Space
Author: Barry Dainton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134943970

The first edition (2001) of this title quickly established itself on courses on the philosophy of time and space. This fully revised and expanded new edition sees the addition of chapters on Zeno's paradoxes, speculative contemporary developments in physics, and dynamic time, making the second edition, once again, unrivalled in its breadth of coverage. Surveying both historical debates and the ideas of modern physics, Barry Dainton evaluates the central arguments in a clear and unintimidating way and is careful to keep the conceptual issues throughout comprehensible to students with little scientific or mathematical training. The book makes the philosophy of space and time accessible for 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, the book has the requirements of students firmly in sight and will continue to serve as an essential textbook for philosophy of time and space courses.

International Relations in a Relational Universe

International Relations in a Relational Universe
Author: Milja Kurki
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2020-01-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0192591452

It is time for International Relations (IR) to join the relational revolution afoot in the natural and social sciences. To do so, more careful reflection is needed on cosmological assumptions in the sciences and also in the study and practice of international relations. In particular it is argued here that we need to pay careful attention to whether and how we think 'relationally'. Building a conversation between relational cosmology, developed in natural sciences, and critical social theory, this book seeks to develop a new perspective on how to think relationally in and around the study of IR. International Relations in a Relational Universe asks: What kind of cosmological background assumptions do we make as we tackle international relations today and where do our assumptions (about states, individuals, or the international) come from? And can we reorient our cosmological imaginations towards more relational understanding of the universe and what would this mean for the study and practice of international politics? The book argues that we live in a world without 'things', a world of processes and relations. It also suggests that we live in relations which exceed the boundaries of the human and the social, in planetary relations with plants and animals. Rethinking conceptual premises of IR, Kurki points towards a 'planetary politics' perspective within which we can reimagine IR as a field of study and also political practices, including the future of democracy.

Queer and Deleuzian Temporalities

Queer and Deleuzian Temporalities
Author: Rachel Loewen Walker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2021-11-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1350184365

Rachel Loewen Walker's original study of Deleuze's theory of temporality advances a concept of the living present as a critical juncture through which novel meanings and activisms take flight in relation to new feminist materialisms, queer theory, Indigenous studies, and studies of climate. Drawing on literature, philosophy, popular culture, and community research, Loewen Walker unsettles the fierce linearity of our stories, particularly as they uphold fixed systems of gender, sexuality, and identity. Treading new ground for Deleuzian studies, this book focuses on the non-linearity of the living present to show that everything is within rather than outside of time. Through this critical re-evaluation, which takes in climate change, queer and trans politics, and Indigenous sovereignty, Queer and Deleuzian Temporalities “thickens” the present moment. By opening up multiple pasts and multiple futures we are invited to act with a deepened level of accountability to all possible timelines.