What Makes Time Special?

by Craig Callender

As we navigate through life we instinctively model time as having a flowing present that divides a fixed past from open future. This model develops in childhood and is deeply saturated within our language, thought and behavior, affecting our conceptions of the universe, freedom and the self.
Yet as central as it is to our lives, physics seems to have no room for this flowing present. What Makes Time Special? demonstrates this claim in detail and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198797303
• ISBN13: 9780198797302
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"