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171The Metaphysics of Time: A DialogueRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2009.Seventh in the New Dialogues in Philosophy series, this book discusses the concept of time and shows in the simplest ways how time informs discussions about causality, creation, physics, natural disasters, and much more. Creating a series of conversations between two fictional characters, Bradley Dowden uses the characters to explore nine metaphysical issues involving time.
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65TimeInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2025.Time is what clocks are used to measure. Information about time tells the durations of events and when they occur and which events happen before which others, so time plays a very significant role in the universe’s structure, including the structure of our personal lives. But carefully describing time’s properties has led to many unresolved issues, both philosophical and scientific.
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7What Else Science Requires of Time )That Philosophers Should Know)Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2025.What Else Science Requires of Time (That Philosophers Should Know) Science appears to have a great many other implications about the nature of time that are not discussed in the main Time article. This article is one of the three supplements to that main article. The other two are Frequently Asked Questions about Time and … Continue reading What Else Science Requires of Time )That Philosophers Should Know) →
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4What elseInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2020.What Else Science Requires of Time This article adds to the main “Time” article and its supplements. The three most fundamental theories of physical science are the general theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, including the standard model of particle physics, and the big bang theory of cosmology. Their amalgamation is usually called … Continue reading what else →
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11InfiniteInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2013.The Infinite Working with the infinite is tricky business. Zeno’s paradoxes first alerted philosophers to this in 450 B.C.E. when he argued that a fast runner such as Achilles has an infinite number of places to reach during the pursuit of a slower runner. Since then, there has been a struggle to understand how to […]
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75What Else Science Requires of TimeInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2022.What Else Science Requires of Time This article is one of the two supplements of the main Time article. Table of Contents What are Theories of Physics? The Core Theory Relativity Theory Quantum Theory The Standard Model Big Bang Cosmic Inflation Eternal Inflation and the Multiverse Infinite Time 1. What are Theories of Physics? The … Continue reading What Else Science Requires of Time →
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38Frequently Asked Questions about TimeInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2023.Frequently Asked Questions about Time This supplement provides background information about many of the topics discussed in both the main Time article and its companion article What Else Science Requires of Time. It is not intended that this article be read in order by section number. Table of Contents What Are Durations, Instants, Moments, and … Continue reading Frequently Asked Questions about Time →
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52Liar paradoxInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2001.The Liar Paradox is an argument that arrives at a contradiction by reasoning about a Liar Sentence. The classical Liar Sentence is the self-referential sentence “This sentence is false.”
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59Time SupplementInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2022.Frequently Asked Questions This supplement provides background information about many of the topics discussed in both the main Time article and its companion article What Else Science Requires of Time. It is not intended that this article be read in order by section number. Table of Contents What Are Durations, Instants, Moments, and Points of … Continue reading Time Supplement →
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53TimeInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2020.Time Time is what a clock is used to measure. Information about time tells the durations of events, and when they occur, and which events happen before which others. So, time plays a very significant role in the universe’s organization. Nevertheless, despite 2,500 years of investigation into the nature of time, there are many unresolved … Continue reading Time →
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25TruthInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2004.Philosophers are interested in a constellation of issues involving the concept of truth. A preliminary issue, although somewhat subsidiary, is to decide what sorts of things can be true. Is truth a property of sentences (which are linguistic entities in some language or other), or is truth a property of propositions (nonlinguistic, abstract and timeless entities)? The principal issue is: What is truth? It is the problem of being clear about what you are saying when you say some claim or other is…Read more
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432FallaciesInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2020.Fallacies A fallacy is a kind of error in reasoning. The list of fallacies below contains 230 names of the most common fallacies, and it provides brief explanations and examples of each of them. Fallacious arguments should not be persuasive, but they too often are. Fallacies may be created unintentionally, or they may be created … Continue reading fallacies →
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135Zeno’s ParadoxesInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2009.Zeno’s Paradoxes In the fifth century B.C.E., Zeno offered arguments that led to conclusions contradicting what we all know from our physical experience—that runners run, that arrows fly, and that there are many different things in the world. The arguments were paradoxes for the ancient Greek philosophers. Because many of the arguments turn crucially on … Continue reading Zeno’s Paradoxes →
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98TimeInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2001.Time Time is what clocks measure. The three key features of time are that it orders events in sequence one after the other; it specifies how long any event lasts; and it specifies when events occur. Yet despite 2,500 years of investigating time, many issues about it are unresolved. Here is a list of the […]
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66Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (edited book)Univ. of Tennessee Martin. 1995.The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy was founded in 1995 for the purpose of providing detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy. Articles are peer-reviewed and blind-refereed. The IEP offers access to a keyword site search engine and is free of charge to all Internet users. It is continuously revised and updated. It had 880 articles in 2024, and it is has 6.9 million different visitors every year.
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