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The Asymmetric Nature of Time - Accounting for the Open Future and the Fixed Past (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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The Asymmetric Nature of Time - Accounting for the Open Future and the Fixed Past (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Synthese Library, 468
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This open access monograph offers a detailed study and a systematic
defense of a key intuition we typically have, as human beings, with
respect to the nature of time: the intuition that the future is
open, whereas the past is fixed. For example, whereas it seems
unsettled whether there will be a fourth world war, it is settled
that there was a first world war. The book contributes, in
particular, three major and original insights. First, it provides a
coherent, non-metaphorical, and metaphysically illuminating
elucidation of the intuition. Second, it determines which model of
the temporal structure of the world is most appropriate to
accommodate the intuition, and settles on a specific version of the
Growing Block Theory of time (GBT). Third, it puts forward a
naturalistic foundation for GBT, by exploiting recent results of
our best physics (viz. General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and
Quantum Gravity). Three main challenges are addressed: the
dismissal of temporal asymmetries as non-fundamental phenomena only
(e.g., thermodynamic or causal phenomena), the epistemic objection
against GBT, and the apparent tension between GBT and relativistic
physics. It is argued that the asymmetry between the open future
and the fixed past must be grounded in the temporal structure of
the world, and that this is neither precluded by our epistemic
device, nor by the latest approaches to Quantum Gravity ( e.g., the
Causal Set Theory). Aiming at reconciling time as we find it in
ordinary experience and time as physics describes it, this
innovative book will raise the interest of both academic
researchers and graduate students working on the philosophy of
time. More generally, it presents contents of interest for all
metaphysicians and non-dogmatic philosophers of physics. This is an
open access book.
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