Time
a very short introduction
$28.43
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
19 January 2022
Summary
Time: A Very Short Introduction
What is time? What does it mean for time to pass? Is it possible to travel in time? What is the difference between the past and future? Until the work of Newton, these questions were purely topics of philosophical speculation. Since then we’ve learned a great deal about time, and its study has moved from a subject of philosophical reflection to instead became part of the subject matter of physics.
This Very Short Introduction introduces reader…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198832669 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198832664 |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
| Author: | Jenann Ismael |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 19 January 2022 |
| Weight: | 112g |
| Dimensions: | 174mm x 111mm x 8mm |
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About The Author
Jenann Ismael
Jenann Ismael is a Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, Affiliate of the Zuckerman Institute, and member of FQXi. She taught at Stanford University and the University of Arizona before coming to Columbia. Ismael has held fellowships at the National Humanities Center, and the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and a Queen Elizabeth II fellowship at the Centre for Time in Sydney. Her work has been supported by the TempletonFoundation, the Mellon Foundation, NEH, and the Foundational Questions Institute. She is the author of Essays on Symmetry (2001); The Situated Self (2007); and How Physics Makes Us Free (2016).
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