Absolute Time
Rifts in Early Modern British Metaphysics
What is time? This is one of the most fundamental questions we can ask. Traditionally, the answer was that time is a product of the human mind, or of the motion of celestial bodies. In the mid-seventeenth century, a new kind of answer emerged: time or eternal duration is 'absolute', in the sense that it is independent of human minds and material bodies.Emily Thomas explores the development of absolute time or eternal duration during one of Britain's richest and most creative metaphysical periods, from the 1640s to the 1730s. She introduces an interconnected set of main characters - Henry More, Walter Charleton, Isaac Barrow, Isaac Newton, Joh…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-253528-3
- EAN: 9780192535283
- Produktnummer: 29379598
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'606 KB
Über den Autor
Emily Thomas is Assistant Professor in Philosphy at Durham University. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge (2013) and held a postdoc at the University of Groningen (2013-2016) before arriving at Durham. She mostly works on space and time in the history of philosophy, and is especially fond of excavating the work of philosophically rich but understudied figures.
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