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The Study of Time IV

Papers from the Fourth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time, Alpbach—Austria

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  • © 1981

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Editors:
  1. J. T. Fraser

    1. International society for the Study of time, Westport, USA

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  2. Nathanial Lawrence

    1. Department of Philosophy, Williams College, Williamstown, USA

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  3. David Park

    1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Williams College, Williamstown, USA

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. My Time Is Your Time

    1. My Time Is Your Time

      • N. Lawrence
      Pages 1-12

  3. Issues of Beginnings and Endings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Beginnings of Organic Evolution

      • A. G. Cairns-Smith
      Pages 15-33

    3. The Beginning of the Beginning in Western Thought

      • D. Corish
      Pages 34-45

    4. Death, Literature, and Its Consolations

      • G. H. Ford
      Pages 46-58

    5. On the Beginnings and Endings of Time in Medieval Judaism and Islam

      • S. L. Goldman
      Pages 59-72

    6. A Structuralist View of Biological Origins

      • B. C. Goodwin
      Pages 73-89

    7. The Origins of Time

      • M. Heller
      Pages 90-93

    8. The Relationship Between Our New Sense of Time and Our sense of an Ending in Tragedy

      • S. L. Macey
      Pages 94-102

    9. The Beginning and End of Time in Physical Cosmology

      • D. Park
      Pages 103-118

    10. Beginnings and Endings: Hesse and Kawabata

      • M. Pilarcik
      Pages 119-135

    11. Perspectivity and the Principle of Continuity

      • C. M. Sherover
      Pages 136-146

    12. Closure and the Shape of Fictions: The Example of “Women in Love”

      • M. Torgovnick
      Pages 147-158

  4. Issues of Music and Time

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. Hindu-Buddhist Time in Javanese Gamelan Music

      • J. Becker
      Pages 161-172

    3. The Zones of Time in Music and Human Activity

      • L. Bielawski
      Pages 173-179

    4. On Musical Continuity

      • D. Epstein
      Pages 180-197

    5. The Creation of Audible Time

      • L. Rowell
      Pages 198-210

  5. Miscellaneous Contributions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211
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Editors and Affiliations

  • International society for the Study of time, Westport, USA

    J. T. Fraser

  • Department of Philosophy, Williams College, Williamstown, USA

    Nathanial Lawrence

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Williams College, Williamstown, USA

    David Park

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Study of Time IV

  • Book Subtitle: Papers from the Fourth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time, Alpbach—Austria

  • Editors: J. T. Fraser, Nathanial Lawrence, David Park

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5947-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-5949-7Published: 14 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-5947-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 286

  • Topics: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods

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