Time: A Very Short Introduction

by Jenann Ismael

Overview

What is time? This book describes the developing physics of the concept of time from Newton, via Einstein, to the present day, and the related philosophical aspects. It also discusses the psychological experience of time and insights from cognitive science.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192568953
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	10/28/2021
Series:	Very Short Introductions
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Jenann Ismael is a Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, Affiliate of the Zuckerman Institute, and member of FQXi. She taught at Stanford University and the University of Arizona before coming to Columbia. Ismael has held fellowships at the National Humanities Center, and the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and a Queen Elizabeth II fellowship at the Centre for Time in Sydney. Her work has been supported by the Templeton Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, NEH, and the Foundational Questions Institute. She is the author of Essays on Symmetry (2001); The Situated Self (2007); and How Physics Makes Us Free (2016).

Table of Contents

List of illustrations xxi

1 Time until Newton 1

2 From space and time to spacetime: the era of Einstein 17

3 Philosophical implications of relativity 46

4 The arrow of time 64

5 The time of human experience 80

6 The big picture and new horizons 94

References 103

Further reading 105

Index 109