The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time
Published online:
02 September 2011
Published in print:
07 April 2011
Online ISBN:
9780191728372
Print ISBN:
9780199298204
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Published:April 2011
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'Index', in Craig Callender (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time (2011; online edn, Oxford Academic, 2 Sept. 2011), https://doi.org/, accessed 9 May 2025.
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679Index
- acceleration27, 183–4, 198, 313, 531–4, 536–7, 540–2, 571, 654
- absolute571
- feeling of529
- four‐495
- four‐vector512, See also acceleration, See also four‐instantaneous531
- uniform498
- alethic status141
- asymmetry:
- between space and time649–50
- of causation See causation, See asymmetry of
- of our modal notions309
- of the Ricci curvature523–4
- typicality273–4
- wave341
- A‐theorist See A‐theory
- Barbour, Julian180
- Barbour‐Bertotti Machianism574
- Bayes' theorem81
- Bekenstein‐Hawking formula676
- Belot, Gordon598–9
- bilking argument588–9
- block universe71, 73–5, 78, 82–4, 86–8, 385, 387, 389–91, 404–6, 409–11, 416–7, 567
- non‐dynamic413
- non‐growing405–6
- passage‐free414
- relativistic78
- Born‐Oppenheimer expansion673
- Born rule335
- B‐theorist See B‐theory
- Cauchy development610–11
- causal automorphism557
- causal strength83–4
- causality condition493–4, 496, 518–19, 590, 592–4, 609, 615, 619–21, 624 See also retardation condition
- causation15, 61, 83, 189, 193–4, 196, 225, 248, 251–4, 272, 295, 301, 490, 507
- deterministic chaotic256
- immanent30
- mental430
- simultaneous61
- chance:
- asymmetric notion of251
- backward259
- epistemological role of258
- future‐directed260
- metaphysics of74
- primitive88
- propensity accounts of69
- setup68 See also probability, See also objective;
- closed timelike curve (CTC)249–50, 264, 577–82, 584–7, 592, 594–6, 599–601, 603–4, 606–9, 613, 615–17, 619–25
- co‐location27–8
- composition14, 30
- across time See composition, diachronic
- diachronic30
- of individual specious presents396
- instantaneous30
- synchronic30
- unrestricted28–30
- corner slice33–5
- cosmic background radiation504
- cosmology307–8, 326–7, 340, 486, 508, 511, 517, 519–20, 599, 610, 624, 665
- flatness problem in608
- inflationary613
- modalities in600
- de Finetti68
- D‐fusion See fusion, diachronic
- diachronic monsters30
- dilemma:
- between fatalism and backwards causation62
- of composition28
- for the defender of an objective direction of time299–300
- for any 'distinguished present' version of objective passage279–81
- Genuine373
- of presentism125
- for realist single‐case probability theorists81
- Einstein‐de Sitter cosmological model511
- Einstein's field equations486, 544, 578–9, 584, 586, 590, 593, 594, 596–8, 600–2, 605, 608–9, 611, 612, 615–18, 624–5, 664
- electrodynamics:
- energy193, 210–11, 218, 327, 578, 600–1, 605, 611, 640–1, 648–50, 658–61, 665
- electromagnetic512
- ‐momentum496, 504, 518, 612 See also tensor, energy‐momentum
- principle496
- entanglement676–7
- entities:
- concrete136
- event‐like174
- evidence‐transcendent139
- exactly co‐located27
- external258
- fictional130
- instantaneous26
- macroscopic261
- non‐propositional128
- sub‐personal364
- substantival196
- theoretical200
- ergodicity331–2
- ergodic theory331–2
- flow
- energy‐momentum612
- experiential408
- kinetic426
- in time602
- phenomenal407
- of space602
- time's See flow, of time
- four‐dimensionalism14, 16, 10 See also perdurantism
- Friedman, Michael559
- forward scattering of the wave packet521–2
- futurity280–1
- general relativity74, 159, 249, 264, 296, 534, 544, 573, 578, 595, 606, 611, 664, 665, 667–70, 677
- Hamiltonian formulation of621
- global time function602
- Hamiltonian constraint668
- Hamilton‐Jacobi equation673
- hidden variables309
- Hintikka53
- hole argument180
- Humphreys' paradox81–2
- isotropy group544
- Klein bottle538
- Kneale, W. and M.52–3
- law
- collapse333–5
- dynamical30, 216, 226, 233, 235, 253, 261, 264, 313–15, 318–19, 323–5, 330, 332, 340–1, 460, 574, 578, 584–5, 590, 601, 635, 663
- Gauss668
- inertial573–4
- indeterministic333
- logical50 See also Law of Excluded Middle; See also Law of Non‐Contradiction
- Machian293
- propagation668
- psycho‐physical223
- of quantum mechanics575
- quantum theoretic216
- special science339
- time asymmetric See law, See non‐time reversal invariant
- time reversal symmetric See laws, See time reversal invariant
- transformation551
- Lewis, C.I.367
- Lewis, David19, 20, 25, 26, 28, 29, 58, 69, 87, 101, 107, 110, 113, 115, 127, 165, 175, 252, 301, 580, 582, 585, 601
- Lewisian pluriverse20
- light cone76, 185, 191–2, 191, 196–7, 201, 237, 255, 261, 294, 519, 550, 557, 558, 564, 566, 590, 612
- location:
- instantaneous173
- momentary See q‐location
- in phase‐space333
- point‐sized203
- of the quantum‐theoretic foliation215
- Locke, John366
- Lorentz‐Dirac equation512–21
- Lorentz gauge condition491
- manifold:
- B‐theorist's239
- differentiable590
- non‐foliable188
- one‐dimensional109
- sensory466
- three‐dimensional668
- mechanics:
- Hamiltonian317
- metric73, 189, 209, 211, 212, 235, 238, 465, 491, 538, 573, 590, 605, 618, 675
- field180
- Lorentz‐signature590
- of SR196
- temporal574
- Milne, Edward80–2
- modal realism14
- modal status61
- momentary object stages20
- non‐locality235
- Norton, John557
- ontology
- of concrete possibilia19
- of the manifold230
- mixed particle‐field497
- of persistence31
- of physical objects16
- pure particle497
- passage of time75, 78, 248, 276–7, 282, 284, 299, 303, 305, 384, 385, 392, 408, 418, 547, 551, 561, 564, 600
- perdurantism14–5, 26, 231 See also perdurance
- persistence:
- direct20
- of the time traveler588
- problem of13
- three modes of17, 22, 24 See also endurance; See also perdurance; See also exdurance
- vicarious20
- physics:
- continuous154
- final223–4
- foundational575
- micro‐313
- molecular673
- spacetime588
- of SR193
- thermal506
- time‐invariant287
- Planck mass672–3
- Platonism15
- Poincaré covariance496
- possibilism70
- presentism15–17, 57–60, 70, 113, 122–3, 124–7, 129–35, 139–143, 163, 165, 167–8, 171–2, 175–6, 178–80, 188–9, 197–200, 203, 205–211, 218–222, 224, 226, 228, 231–4, 237–9, 277, 279, 281, 361, 364, 405, 406, 412–14 See also epistemicism‐presentism
- Principal Principle87–8
- probability:
- backward‐looking81 See also probability, past‐directed
- conditional81
- conservation of664, 6173
- current645
- law‐derived84
- lawful333
- past‐directed258–9
- postulate328
- theory
- discrete version of158
- of time‐travel587–9
- propensities68–70, 80–7
- chance See chance, propensities
- properties:
- alien115
- contingent597
- epiphenomenal223
- imprecise247
- instantaneous physical27
- lingering26–27
- logical93
- modal308
- negative18
- qualitative468
- syntactic93
- temporary intrinsic25 See also change, problem of
- tensed130–1 See also A‐properties
- topological537
- QED See electrodynamics, quantum
- quantum field theory36, 159, 497, 522, 524, 579, 613, 639, 642, 646, 665
- linear522
- Lorentz invariant633
- spinor645
- quantum mechanics See mechanics, quantum
- quasi‐location See q‐location
- Ramsey, Frank358
- Raychaudhuri equation616
- Rea, Michael58–9
- reference15, 54, 125, 130, 134, 135, 434
- failure of48
- frame of31–34, 74, 166, 206, 210, 213–15, 217–19, 223, 466, 479, 480, 528–31, 536–7, 541–543, 547, 548, 572, 598, 637, 643
- point of105–6
- Rynasiewicz, Robert557–9
- self‐adjointness656
- semiclassical time672–5
- set theory23, 111
- causal625 See also causal sets
- simultaneity17, 18, 33, 78, 166, 191, 195, 208, 211, 223, 224, 228, 238, 546–7, 557–60, 595
- Einstein556
- problem395–6
- quantum measurement186
- telepathic186
- Sorites series28
- spacetime
- BMPV black hole622
- Friedman‐Lemaître‐Walker‐ Robertson520
- special relativity17, 31, 36, 74, 76, 165–8, 178–83, 185–201, 204–223, 225–7, 229, 231–4, 237–9, 259, 528–31, 533–4, 536, 543, 567, 575, 578, 580, 595, 664 See also relativity theory, special
- specious present76, 78, 393–404, 408, 410–21, 414–17, 425, 462, 464, 467, 469, 472, 474, 476–7, 481, 566
- Doctrine of462
- individual409
- s‐parthood See parthood, spatial
- SR See special relativity
- Stachel, John557–8
- stage theory See exdurance
- statistical mechanics See mechanics, statistical
- supersymmetry622
- supervalidity48
- temporal orientability284–5
- temporal parts14, 18, 19, 24–6, 29, 170, 230, 364, 7, 366, 9, 464, 471, 479
- finitely extended proper25
- temporally extended25
- temporary intrinsics See properties, temporary intrinsic
- time reversal633, 636, 638, 675
- operator316–17
- transformation516 See also law, time reversal invariant
- three‐dimensionalism See endurantism
- t‐parthood See parthood, temporal
- t‐parts See temporal parts
- truth:
- universalism:
- diachronic See composition, unrestricted
- synchronic See composition, unrestricted
- WKB approximation521
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