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The Moment of Change - A Systematic History in the Philosophy of Space and Time (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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The Moment of Change - A Systematic History in the Philosophy of Space and Time (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
Series: The New Synthese Historical Library, 45
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This book is a systematic history of one of the oldest problems in
the philosophy of space and time: How is the change from one state
to its opposite to be described? To my knowledge it is the first
comprehensive book providing information about and analysis of
texts on this topic throughout the ages. The target audience I
envisaged are advanced students and scholars of analytic philosophy
and the history of philosophy who are interested in the philosophy
of space and time. Authors treated in this book range from Plato,
Aristotle, the logicians of the late Middle Ages, Kant, Brentano
and Russell to contemporary authors such as Chisholm, Hamblin,
Sorabji or Graham Priest, taking into account such theories as
interval semantics or paraconsistent logic. For the first time, two
main questions about the moment of change are explicitly kept
apart: Which (if any) of the opposite states does the moment of
change belong to? And does it contain an instantaneous event? The
texts are discussed within a clear framework of the main systematic
options for describing the moment of change, sometimes using
predicate logic extended by newly introduced logical prefixes. The
last part contains a new suggestion of how to solve the problem of
the moment of change. It is centred around a theory of
instantaneous states which provides a new solution to Zeno's Flying
Arrow Paradox.
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