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Peter and Paul: a Ghost Story?
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Alessandra Campo
and Rocco Ronchi
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface: The Times Are Many V
- Introduction XIII
- Table of Contents XXIII
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Part One: Some Preliminary Questions
- Who Is Entitled to Talk about Time? Philosophers or Physicists? 1
- Einstein vs. Bergson, Scientism vs. Humanism 15
- Is Time Unreal? 35
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Part Two: Bergsonian Issues
- The Eternal Quarrel on Time 55
- Some Contemporary Reflections on Bergson’s Time and Free Will 65
- Duration and Becoming in Bergson’s Metaphysics 83
- Time as Form: Lessons from the Bergson-Einstein Dispute 99
- Peter and Paul: a Ghost Story? 135
- The Test of Time: Human and Cosmic Time 165
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Part Three: The Nature of Time, the Time of Nature
- The Time of Physics 187
- One Time, Two Times, or No Time? 209
- The Ontological Roots of Temporality 231
- On the Notion of Processuality in Whitehead: Concrescence and Transition Correlated 251
- Time and Experience in Physics and Philosophy: Whiteheadian Reflections on Bergson, Einstein, and Rovelli 273
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Part Four: Metaphysics, Logic, Neuroscience, Biology and Cosmology of Time
- No Time for (No) Change 301
- Between the Time of Physics and the Time of Metaphysics, the Time of Tense Logic? 331
- Reinterpreting the Einstein-Bergson Debate through Contemporary Neuroscience 349
- Today’s ecological relevance of Bergson-Einstein debate on time 375
- The Age of the Universe 407
- List of Contributors 433
- Index 437
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface: The Times Are Many V
- Introduction XIII
- Table of Contents XXIII
-
Part One: Some Preliminary Questions
- Who Is Entitled to Talk about Time? Philosophers or Physicists? 1
- Einstein vs. Bergson, Scientism vs. Humanism 15
- Is Time Unreal? 35
-
Part Two: Bergsonian Issues
- The Eternal Quarrel on Time 55
- Some Contemporary Reflections on Bergson’s Time and Free Will 65
- Duration and Becoming in Bergson’s Metaphysics 83
- Time as Form: Lessons from the Bergson-Einstein Dispute 99
- Peter and Paul: a Ghost Story? 135
- The Test of Time: Human and Cosmic Time 165
-
Part Three: The Nature of Time, the Time of Nature
- The Time of Physics 187
- One Time, Two Times, or No Time? 209
- The Ontological Roots of Temporality 231
- On the Notion of Processuality in Whitehead: Concrescence and Transition Correlated 251
- Time and Experience in Physics and Philosophy: Whiteheadian Reflections on Bergson, Einstein, and Rovelli 273
-
Part Four: Metaphysics, Logic, Neuroscience, Biology and Cosmology of Time
- No Time for (No) Change 301
- Between the Time of Physics and the Time of Metaphysics, the Time of Tense Logic? 331
- Reinterpreting the Einstein-Bergson Debate through Contemporary Neuroscience 349
- Today’s ecological relevance of Bergson-Einstein debate on time 375
- The Age of the Universe 407
- List of Contributors 433
- Index 437