Time, Change and Freedom An Introduction to Metaphysics

Name: Time, Change and Freedom An Introduction to Metaphysics
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ISBN: 9780415102490

ISBN-10: 0415102499

ISBN-13: 9780415102490

Edition: 1995

Authors: L. Nathan Oaklander, Quentin Smith

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Time, Change and Freedomis the first introduction to metaphysics that uses the idea of time as a unifying principle. Time is used to relate the many issues involved in the complex study of metaphysics. Sections of the book are written in dialogue form which allows the reader to question the theories while they read and have those queries answered in the text. In addition, the authors provide glossaries of key terms as well as recommendations for further reading at the conclusion of each chapter. Quentin Smith and L. Nathan Oaklander examine the tensions between determinism and freedom, temporality and historical change as well as an array of other issues fundamental to introductory…

Book details

List price: $48.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/16/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.46" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Quentin Smith is Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Western Michigan University.



Introduction



The Finite and the Infinite



The Beginning of Time



The Infinity of Past and Future Time



The Relational and Substantival Theories of Time



Eternity



Time and Identity



The Problem of Change



The Passage of Time



Personal Identity



Personal Identity and Time



The Nature of Freedom



Fatalism and Tenseless Time



God, Time and Freedom



Freedom, Determinism and Responsibility


Appendix: Physical Time and the Universe



Physical Time in Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity



Physical Time in Current Cosmologies


Index