The Language and Reality of Time
ISBN13: 9780199279524ISBN10: 0199279527
Hardback,
240 pages
Jun 2006,
In Stock
Price:
$110.00 (04)Description
Thomas Sattig develops a comprehensive framework for doing philosophy of time, and offers an original three-dimensionalist picture of the material world. He brings together a variety of different perspectives, linking our ordinary conception of time with the physicist's conception, and linking metaphysical questions about time with questions in the philosophy of language.Features
- Fascinating exploration of time and our different understandings of it
- Creates a fertile dialogue between metaphysics, philosophy of physics, and philosophy of language
- Sattig presents his own original metaphysical worldview
Reviews
"...takes the reader on a journey through the labyrinthine intricacies of contemporary analytic philosophy of language, theoretical linguistics, and Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity." -- Language and Time


