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Author International Society for the Study of Time. Conference (13th : 2007 : Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, Calif.)

Title Time : limits and constraints / edited by Jo Alyson Parker, Paul A. Harris, and Christian Steineck
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 377 pages) : illustrations
Series The study of time, 0170-9704 ; v. 13
Study of time ; 13.
Contents President's address: Founder's address: ch. 1. ch. 2. ch. 3. ch. 4. ch. 5. ch. 6. ch. 7. ch. 8. ch. 9. ch. 10. ch. 11. ch. 12. ch. 13. ch. 14. ch. 15. Cosmic epics and global ethics / Constraining chaos / Time: biological, intentional and cultural / The battle for time in the brain / Memory, anticipation and the (un)reality of the past and future / Temporal asymmetry and relativity / Technical reproduction ad the question of material duration / Limits on the duration of copyright: theories and practice / Waiting as a temporal constraint / David Mitchell's Cloud atlas of narrative constraints and environmental limits / Closure and "colored people's time" / Response 1 / Response 2 / Dramatic time: phenomena and dilemmas / Response 1 / Response 2 / Evental distention: restless simultaneity in Steve Reich's Piano phase : towards a rehabilitation of the real / Music-making time? / Pauline Eschatology: thinking and acting in the time that remains / How death was invented and what it is for / Response: need death have a purpose? / Prefatory remarks to chapter fifteen: Reflections: let a dialogue begin / Truth, time, and the extended umwelt principle: conceptual limits and methodological constraints / Paul A. Harris -- J.T. Fraser -- Carlos Montemayor -- Peter Z Hancock -- Jonathan Tallant -- Friedl Weinert -- Heike Klippel -- Tyler T. Ochoa -- Florian Klapproth -- Jo Alyson Parker -- John Streamas -- Robin Lucy -- Deidre H. McMahon -- Carol A. Fischer -- Laura Pattillo -- Katerine Weiss -- Marc Botha -- Helen Sills -- Steven T. Ostovich -- Frederick Turner -- William R. LaFleur -- J.T. Fraser -- Christian Steineck
Summary The nature of time has haunted humanity through the ages. Some conception of time has always entered into our ideas about mortality and immortality, and permanence and change, so that concepts of time are of fundamental importance in the study of religion, philosophy, literature, history, and mythology. How humanity experiences time physiologically, psychologically, and socially enters into the research of the behavioral sciences, and time as a factor of structure and change is an essential consideration of the biological and physical sciences. This volume presents selected essays from the 13t
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Time -- Congresses
PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
Time
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Parker, Jo Alyson, 1954-
Harris, Paul (Paul A.)
Steineck, Raji C.
ISBN 9789004186378
9004186379
1283039370
9781283039376
9786613039378
6613039373