Time
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Time has been understood differently by diferent cultures, by different philosophers and physicists, and in different contexts. This article will look at these differences in terms of three main approaches: the metaphysics of time, the perception of time, and the metric of time.
Metaphysics
Perception
Metric
Sources
- Raymond Flood and Michael Lockwood [edd] The Nature of Time. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986.
- Alfred Gell The Anthropology of Time. Oxford: Berg, 1992.
- Peter J. King "Time", in H. James Birx [ed.] Encyclopedia of Anthropology Volume 5. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2006. ISBN 0-7619-3029-9
- Robin Le Poidevin and Murray MacBeath [edd] The Philosophy of Time. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
- J.M.E. McTaggart "The Unreality of Time". Mind 17, 1908, pp 457–484.
- D.H. Mellor Real Time II. London & New York: Routledge, 1998.