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Philosophy of space and time
Overview
branch of philosophy relating to spatiality and temporality
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If we were to attribute succession to time itself, we should be obliged to cogitate another time, in which this succession would be possible. It is only by means of the permanent that existence in different parts of the successive series of time receives a quantity, which we entitle duration. For in mere succession, existence is perpetually vanishing and recommencing, and therefore never has even the least quantity…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
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But this exhibition of the actual universe as extensive and divisible has left out the distinction between space and time. It has in fact left out the process of realisation, which is the adjustment of the synthetic activities by virtue of which the various events become their realised selves.
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the modern world
Close in meaning to Philosophy of space and time; the term itself is not named.
Our knowledge of nature is an experience of activity (or passage). The things previously observed are active entities, the 'events.' They are chunks in the life of nature. These events have to each other relations which in our knowledge differentiate themselves into space-relations and time-relations. But this differentiation between space and time, though inherent in nature, is comparatively superficial; and space…
Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
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Philosophers who discussed Philosophy of space and time
- Heraclitus
- Hans Reichenbach
- Parmenides
- David Lewis (philosopher)
- J. J. C. Smart
- Adolf Grünbaum
- Rudolf Carnap
- Simplicius of Cilicia
- Quentin Smith
- Hugh Mellor
- Jean-Marie Guyau
- Alexander Pruss
- Peter Forrest (philosopher)
- Ibn Malka al-Baghdadi
- Milič Čapek
- Jonathan Westphal
Related ideas
- Principle of sufficient reason
- Book of Optics
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Philosophy of physics
- Philosophical realism
- Second law of thermodynamics
- Homer
- Philosophy
- Heraclitus
- Isaac Newton
- Immanuel Kant
- The Unreality of Time
- Vedas
- Idealism
- Hans Reichenbach
- Analytic philosophy
- Ibn al-Haytham
- Nader El-Bizri
- Physics (Aristotle)
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Physical object
- Metaphysics
- Measurement
- Christian philosophy
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