The Study of Time III

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Prolegomena

   1. Metaphysical Presuppositions and the Study of Time

      • R. S. Brumbaugh

      Pages 1-21

   2. Levels of Language in Discourse about Time

      • N. Lawrence

      Pages 22-52

3. Physics

   1. The Third Storm of the Twentieth Century: The Einstein Paradox

      • O. Costa de Beauregard

      Pages 53-73

   2. Space—Time Singularities in Cosmology and Black Hole Evaporations

      • P. C. W. Davies

      Pages 74-93

   3. Beneath Time: Explorations in Quantum Topology

      • D. Finkelstein

      Pages 94-114

   4. Thermodynamics, Cosmology and the Physical Constants

      • P. T. Landsberg

      Pages 115-140

   5. On Two Fundamental Laws of Nature and the Role of Time in Time—Space Manifold

      • K. Ono

      Pages 141-166

   6. The Theory of Space—like Time

      • F. Christensen

      Pages 167-187

4. Living Clocks

   1. Biological Clocks and Their Synchronizers

      • J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson

      Pages 188-215

   2. The Living Clocks of Marine Organisms

      • J. D. Palmer

      Pages 216-236

   3. The Measurement of Biological and Social Changes

      • H. Kalmus

      Pages 237-268

5. Subjective Time

   1. Time, Memory, and Affect: Experimental Studies of the Subjective Past

      • S. Albert

      Pages 269-293

   2. Future Time Perspective and Ego Strength

      • A. I. Rabin

      Pages 294-306

6. Past, Present, and Future

   1. The Objectivity, or Otherwise, of the Present

      • K. G. Denbigh

      Pages 307-332

   2. Ideas of Beginnings and Endings in Cosmology

      • J. Merleau-Ponty

      Pages 333-350

   3. The Past and the Future

      • D. Park

      Pages 351-369

   4. The Boundries of the Notion of Time

      • M. Toda

      Pages 370-390

7. Society

   1. Temporal Inventories and Time Structuring in Large Organizations

      • P. Clark

      Pages 391-418

   2. The Individual and Society

      • J. T. Fraser

      Pages 419-443

The papers in this volume were delivered and responded to at the Third Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time. The meeting took place during sunny days, punctuated by an occasional brief storm, in the confer­ ence facilities of the Österreichisches College in Alpbach, Austria, from ]uly 1 to ]uly 10, 1976. In the middle of it came ]uly 4, the 200th anniversary of the Declaration ofindependence, and in honor ofparticipants from the United States there was a special session of papers on the subject of Freedom and Time. [See Fraser, Park in this volume. ] The effect of the papers was kaleidoscopic; reading the table of contents one can surmise the experience of those enthusiasts, and there were several, who heard them all. I think that most people who have been puzzled about time will agree that it is not clear wh at the puzzle is or from what direction the insights will come that will enable us to understand the situation a litde more clearly. As one of the participants wrote afterwards, "After all , we do not know apriori whether there exists areal unity in studies about time, but if one exists it must reveal itself progressively in the course of successive experiences such as these lectures. If it were easy to find, it would have been found already without the Society's help.

• Area
• Manifold
• Time
• Volume
• Zeit
• boundary element method
• consciousness
• eXist
• language
• memory
• object
• organization
• society
• topology
• women

• International Society for the Study of Time, Westport, USA

  J. T. Fraser

• Williams College, Williamstown, USA

  Nathaniel Lawrence, David A. Park

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