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02355aam a2200325Ii 4500 001 A1D1551AE7B011E78369235E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20171223010231 008 161125s2017 enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780198797302 020 $a 0198797303 035 $a (OCoLC)964379370 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d VA@ $d YDX $d EYM $d VA@ $d OCLCF $d IUL $d SILO 050 4 $a BD638 $b .C35 2017 082 04 $a 115 $2 23 100 1 $a Callender, Craig, $d 1968- $e author. 245 10 $a What makes time special? / $c Craig Callender. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xvii, 343 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (313-336) and index. 520 8 $a 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. This book demonstrates this claim in detail and then turns to two novel positive tasks. First, by looking at the world in the spatial directions it shows that physics is not 'spatializing time' as is commonly alleged. Second, if the flowing present is an illusion, it is a deep one worthy of explanation. The author develops a picture whereby the temporal flow arises as an interaction effect between an observer and the physics of the world. Using insights from philosophy, cognitive science, biology, psychology and physics, the theory claims that the flowing present model of time is the natural reaction to the perceptual and evolutionary challenges thrown at us. Modeling time as flowing makes sense even if it misrepresents it. 650 0 $a Time $x Philosophy. 650 7 $a Time $x Philosophy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01151053 776 08 $i Online version : $a Callender, Craig. $t What makes time special?. $d Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017. $z 9780191839603 $w (OCoLC)969544069 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211022809.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20191204013724.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20180802011455.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A1D1551AE7B011E78369235E97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search