What Makes Time Special?

Cover -- What Makes Time Special? -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- List of Boxes -- 1: The Problem of Time -- 1.1 Manifest Time -- 1.1.1 Now -- 1.1.2 Flow -- 1.1.3 Past/Future asymmetry -- 1.1.4 Is manifest time universal? -- 1.2 Physical Time -- 1.2.1 No manifest time -- 1.2.2 What makes time special? -- 1.3 The "Two Times" Problem -- 1.4 FromThere to Here -- 2: Lost Time: RelativityTheory -- 2.1 Classical Physics -- 2.1.1 Recovering space and time -- 2.1.2 Classical ideal clocks and manifest time -- 2.1.3 Trautman-Cartan theory -- 2.2 Relativity -- 2.3 Where's Time? -- 2.4 Minkowski Spacetime -- 2.5 L orentzian Time -- 2.6 Outside Minkowski: Domes, Donuts, and Diamonds -- 2.7 Conclusion -- 3: Tearing Spacetime Asunder -- 3.1 Cauchy Time -- 3.2 "Unique" Time Functions -- 3.3 Time, Stuff, and Laws -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4: Quantum Becoming? -- 4.1 Quantum Mechanics -- 4.2 Popper's Experimentis Crucis -- 4.2.1 Quantum preferred frames and time -- 4.2.2 Caveats and alternatives -- 4.2.3 The coordination problem -- 4.3 Quantum Becoming via Collapses? -- 4.4 Conclusion -- 5: Intimations of Quantum Gravitational Time -- 5.1 The Best of Times: "Asynchronous Becoming" in Causal Sets -- 5.1.1 The basic kinematics of CST -- 5.1.2 Taking growth seriously -- 5.2 TheWorst of Times: Disappearing Time in Canonical Quantum Gravity -- 5.2.1 Semiclassical time -- 5.2.2 Justifying the approximations -- 5.3 Conclusion -- 6: The Differences Between Time and Space -- 6.1 The Project Reconceived -- 6.2 Time in Physics -- 6.2.1 The metric -- 6.2.2 Dimensionality -- 6.2.3 Mobility asymmetry -- 6.2.4 Direction of time -- 6.2.5 Natural kind asymmetry -- 6.3 The Fragmentation of Time -- 6.4 Conclusion -- 7: Laws, Systems, and Time -- 7.1 System Laws and Time -- 7.2 Time is the Great Informer -- 7.3 Binding Time.

7.3.1 One-dimensionality -- 7.3.2 Closed timelike curves -- 7.3.3 The direction of time -- 7.3.4 Natural kind asymmetry -- 7.4 Metaphysical Variations -- 7.5 Questions and Connections -- 7.6 onclusion -- 8: Looking at the World Sideways -- 8.1 Strength and Well-posed Cauchy Problems -- 8.2 The Worlds -- 8.3 Proposal -- 8.4 The Argument -- 8.5 Illustration -- 8.6 Is It Time? -- 8.7 Turning Pages in Non-temporal Directions -- 8.7.1 Pages of light -- 8.7.2 Pages of time -- 8.8 Conclusion -- 9: Do We Experience the Present? -- 9.1 Metaphysics of Time -- 9.2 The Problem of the Presence of Experience -- 9.3 The Temporal Knowledge Argument -- 9.4 From Metaphysics to Psychology: Perceived Synchrony -- 9.4.1 Temporal ventriloquism -- 9.4.2 Temporal recalibration -- 9.4.3 Comments -- 9.5 Interlude: Measuring Subjective Simultaneity -- 9.6 Exploding the Now -- 9.7 Does Synchrony Pop Out? -- 9.8 Conclusion -- 10: Stuck in the Common Now -- 10.1 Disagreement and the Case of PH -- 10.2 Manufacturing the Now: Signals, Speed, and Stamps -- 10.2.1 Time stamps not needed -- 10.2.2 The common now -- 10.3 Wiggling in Time vsWiggling in Space -- 10.4 Conclusion -- 11: The Flow of Time: Stitching the World Together -- 11.1 Sharpening Focus -- 11.2 Meet IGUS -- 11.3 Getting IGUS Stuck in Time -- 11.4 Outfitting IGUS -- 11.4.1 Sensing motion and change -- 11.4.2 Specious present -- 11.4.3 Felt duration -- 11.5 M emories and Flow -- 11.6 The EnduringWitness -- 11.7 From Flowing Selves to Animated Time -- 11.8 Temporal Decentering and the Self -- 11.9 The Acting Self -- 11.10 The Explanation of Passage -- 11.11 Conclusion -- 12: Explaining the Temporal Value Asymmetry -- 12.1 "Thank GoodnessThat's Over" -- 12.2 The Proximal/Distant Asymmetry -- 12.3 The Humean Solution -- 12.4 The Knowledge Asymmetry -- 12.5 The Affect Asymmetry -- 12.6 Explaining the PF Asymmetry.

12.7 Other Temporal Biases -- 12.8 Explaining Other Time Biases -- 12.9 Conclusion -- 13: Moving Past the ABCs of Time -- 13.1 Analytic Philosophy of Time: A Potted and Biased History -- 13.2 The Explanatory Challenge -- 13.3 The ABCs of Physics -- 13.4 Eliminating Tense? -- 13.5 Conclusion -- 14: Putting It All Together -- 14.1 Common Structure -- 14.2 A Unified Flowing Now -- 14.3 Animals -- 14.4 An Illusion? -- 14.5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

The flow of time is a deep, significant and universal aspect of human life. Yet it remains a mystery and many dismiss the flow of time as illusory. Craig Callender explores this puzzle, and offers a fascinating explanation of why creatures experience time as flowing - even if, as physics suggests, it isn't.

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