Ghirardi, Giancarlo
Space, Time and the Limits of Human Understanding
Part I. Philosophy
1. Space as a Source and as an Object of Knowledge: The Transformation of the Concept of Space in the Post-Kantian Philosophy of Geometry
Francesca Biagioli
2. Time in Physics and Time in Awareness
E. C. G. Sudarshan
3. Time and Space in Ancient India: Pre-philosophical Period
Nataliya Yanchevskaya, Michael Witzel
4. Śrīharṣa on the Indefinability of Time
Jonathan Duquette, Krishnamurti Ramasubramanian
5. From Time to Time
Nathan Salmon
6. Why Spacetime Has a Life of Its Own
James Robert Brown
7. The Phenomenology of Space and Time: Husserl, Sartre, Derrida
Hans Herlof Grelland
8. Space, Time, and (How They) Matter
Valia Allori
9. Relativity Theory May not Have the Last Word on the Nature of Time: Quantum Theory and Probabilism
Nicholas Maxwell
Part II. Physics
10. Nature’s Book Keeping System
Gerard ’t Hooft
11. Spacetime and Reality: Facing the Ultimate Judge
Vesselin Petkov
12. The Future’s Not Ours to See
Anthony Sudbery
13. Hermann Weyl’s Space-Time Geometry and Its Impact on Theories of Fundamental Interactions
Norbert Straumann
14. Matter, Space, Time, and Motion: A Unified Gravitational Perspective
C. S. Unnikrishnan
15. An Anomaly in Space and Time and the Origin of Dynamics
Joan A. Vaccaro
16. Space, Time, and Adynamical Explanation in the Relational Blockworld
W. M. Stuckey, Michael Silberstein, Timothy McDevitt
17. Spacetime Is Doomed
George Musser
Part III. Mathematics
18. Geometry and Physical Space
Mary Leng
19. The Geometry of Manifolds and the Perception of Space
Raymond O. Wells Jr.
20. Paradox? the Mathematics of Space-Time and the Limits of Human Understanding
Paul Ernest
21. “Now” Has an Infinitesimal Positive Duration
Reuben Hersh
22. What’s Wrong with the Platonic Ideal of Space and Time?
Lorenzo Sadun
23. The Fundamental Problem of Dynamics
Julian Barbour
24. General Relativity, Time, and Determinism
James Isenberg
25. Topos Theoretic Approach to Space and Time
Goro C. Kato
Part IV. Biology/Cognitive Science
26. Syntactic Space
Rajesh Kasturirangan
27. Time Measurement in Living Systems: Human Understanding and Health Implications
Lakshman Abhilash, Vijay Kumar Sharma
28. The Cellular Space—The Space of Life
Pier Luigi Luisi
29. The Consciousness of Space, the Space of Consciousness
Mauro Bergonzi, Pier Luigi Luisi
30. Time and Suffering: False Metaphors, (De-)Synchronous Times, and Internal Dynamics
Norman Sieroka
31. Evolutionary Time and the Creation of the Space of Life
Randall E. Auxier
Part V. Logic/Computer Science
32. A Computational Mathematics View of Space, Time and Complexity
David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein
33. ‘Photographing the Footsteps of Time’: Space and Time in Charles Babbage’s Calculating Engines
Doron Swade
34. The Black Hole in Mathematics
Alexander Keewatin Dewdney
35. Gödel Incompleteness and the Empirical Sciences
N. C. A. Costa, F. A. Doria
36. Gödel’s Ontological Dreams
Gary Mar
Part VI. Miscellaneous
37. The Novel and the Map: Spatiotemporal Form and Discourse in Literary Cartography
Robert T. Tally
38. Time, Space, and the Human Geographies of Opportunity
Donald G. Janelle
39. Losing Time and Space: Experiencing Immersion
Diana J. Reichenbach
Keywords: Physics, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Epistemology, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Cosmology, Metaphysics
- Editor
- Ghirardi, Giancarlo
- Wuppuluri, Shyam
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- The Frontiers Collection
- Page amount
- 23 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319444185
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-44417-8