对许多人来说,时间不存在的想法是不可想象的:时间必须存在。几乎所有的经验都告诉我们这一点。
关于时间是什么样的,有很多争论,但不包括它是否存在。这本书的目的是让时间的缺失变得可以思考。时间可能不存在。从对“民间”时间概念的经验性考察开始,这本书探索了这对我们理解能动性的影响,以及我们最好的物理学和最好的形而上学在多大程度上与永恒的现实概念兼容。
Out of Time: A Philosophical Study of Timelessness
The idea that time does not exist is, for many, unthinkable: time must exist. Almost every experience we have tells us so.
There has been plenty of debate around what time is like, but not whether it exists. The goal of this book is to make the absence of time thinkable. Time might not exist. Beginning with an empirically flavoured examination of the ‘folk’ concept of time, the book explores the implications this has for our understanding of agency, and the extent to which our best physics and best metaphysics are compatible with a timeless conception of reality.
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