What makes time special?

364 Pages·2017·4.178 MB·English

by  Craig Callender

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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
ListofFigures xv
ListofBoxes xix
. TheProblemofTime 
. ManifestTime 
.. Now 
.. Flow 
.. Past/Futureasymmetry 
.. Ismanifesttimeuniversal? 
. PhysicalTime 
.. Nomanifesttime 
.. Whatmakestimespecial? 
. The“TwoTimes”Problem 
. FromTheretoHere 
. LostTime:RelativityTheory 
. ClassicalPhysics 
.. Recoveringspaceandtime 
.. Classicalidealclocksandmanifesttime 
.. Trautman–Cartantheory 
. Relativity 
. Where’sTime? 
. MinkowskiSpacetime 
. LorentzianTime 
. OutsideMinkowski:Domes,Donuts,andDiamonds 
. Conclusion 
. TearingSpacetimeAsunder 
. CauchyTime 
. “Unique”TimeFunctions 
. Time,Stuff,andLaws 
. Conclusion 
. QuantumBecoming? 
. QuantumMechanics 
. Popper’sExperimentisCrucis 
.. Quantumpreferredframesandtime 
..Caveatsandalternatives 
..Thecoordinationproblem 
. QuantumBecomingviaCollapses? 
. Conclusion 
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. IntimationsofQuantumGravitationalTime 
. TheBestofTimes:“AsynchronousBecoming”inCausalSets 
.. ThebasickinematicsofCST 
.. Takinggrowthseriously 
. TheWorstofTimes:DisappearingTimeinCanonicalQuantumGravity 
.. Semiclassicaltime 
.. Justifyingtheapproximations 
. Conclusion 
. TheDifferencesBetweenTimeandSpace 
. TheProjectReconceived 
. TimeinPhysics 
.. Themetric 
.. Dimensionality 
.. Mobilityasymmetry 
.. Directionoftime 
.. Naturalkindasymmetry 
. TheFragmentationofTime 
. Conclusion 
. Laws,Systems,andTime 
. SystemLawsandTime 
. TimeistheGreatInformer 
. BindingTime 
.. One-dimensionality 
.. Closedtimelikecurves 
.. Thedirectionoftime 
.. Naturalkindasymmetry 
. MetaphysicalVariations 
. QuestionsandConnections 
. Conclusion 
. LookingattheWorldSideways 
. StrengthandWell-posedCauchyProblems 
. TheWorlds 
. Proposal 
. TheArgument 
. Illustration 
. IsItTime? 
. TurningPagesinNon-temporalDirections 
.. Pagesoflight 
.. Pagesoftime 
. Conclusion 
. DoWeExperiencethePresent? 
. MetaphysicsofTime 
. TheProblemofthePresenceofExperience 
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. TheTemporalKnowledgeArgument 
. FromMetaphysicstoPsychology:PerceivedSynchrony 
.. Temporalventriloquism 
.. Temporalrecalibration 
.. Comments 
. Interlude:MeasuringSubjectiveSimultaneity 
. ExplodingtheNow 
. DoesSynchronyPopOut? 
. Conclusion 
. StuckintheCommonNow 
. DisagreementandtheCaseofPH 
. ManufacturingtheNow:Signals,Speed,andStamps 
.. Timestampsnotneeded 
.. Thecommonnow 
. WigglinginTimevsWigglinginSpace 
. Conclusion 
. TheFlowofTime:StitchingtheWorldTogether 
. SharpeningFocus 
. MeetIGUS 
. GettingIGUSStuckinTime 
. OutfittingIGUS 
.. Sensingmotionandchange 
.. Speciouspresent 
.. Feltduration 
. MemoriesandFlow 
. TheEnduringWitness 
. FromFlowingSelvestoAnimatedTime 
. TemporalDecenteringandtheSelf 
. TheActingSelf 
. TheExplanationofPassage 
. Conclusion 
. ExplainingtheTemporalValueAsymmetry 
. “ThankGoodnessThat’sOver” 
. TheProximal/DistantAsymmetry 
. TheHumeanSolution 
. TheKnowledgeAsymmetry 
. TheAffectAsymmetry 
. ExplainingthePFAsymmetry 
. OtherTemporalBiases 
. ExplainingOtherTimeBiases 
. Conclusion 
. MovingPasttheABCsofTime 
. AnalyticPhilosophyofTime:APottedandBiasedHistory 
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