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Time: Its Structure and Role in Physical Theories

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  • © 1985

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Authors:
  1. Peter Kroes

    1. Department of Philosophy and Social Science, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
      Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Science, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 179)

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Physical Time and the Problem of its Structure

    • Peter Kroes
    Pages 1-57

  3. The Geometrical Nature of Physical Time: Parameter Time and Coordinate Time

    • Peter Kroes
    Pages 58-102

  4. Time Asymmetry

    • Peter Kroes
    Pages 103-138

  5. Thermodynamical Time Asymmetry and the Second Law of Phenomenological Thermodynamics

    • Peter Kroes
    Pages 139-194

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 195-227
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy and Social Science, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Peter Kroes

  • Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Science, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Peter Kroes

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Time: Its Structure and Role in Physical Theories

  • Authors: Peter Kroes

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6522-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1894-5Published: 31 December 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-6524-9Published: 13 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-6522-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 227

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

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