Physics of Time By Ashish singh Nov,08,2021 In the sciences generally, time is simply what a clock reads, but this hides a whole host of different conceptions of time used in physicsPhysics is the only science that explicitly studies time, but even physicists agree that time is one of the most difficult properties of our universe to understand. Even in the most modern and complex physical models, though, time is usually considered to be an ontologically “basic” or primary concept, and not...

Modern Philosophy By Ashish singh Nov,08,2021 Much of the modern philosophical debate on time was triggered by work by J.M.E. McTaggartIn the 20th Century, the philosophical debate on the nature of time continued unabated, given new impetus by the work of the British idealist philosopher J.M.E. McTaggart, particularly his 1908 paper, The Unreality of Time. McTaggart argued that time is actually unreal because our descriptions of it are necessarily either contradictory, circular or insuffic...

Early Modern Philosophy By Ashish singh Nov,08,2021 Two opposing philosophical positions on time in the Early Modern period were championed by Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried LeibnizAfter a long lull, the nature of time once again became a point of philosophical contention during the 17th and 18th Century, the so-called Age of Enlightenment or Age of Reason. René Descartes took the rather mystical view that, although a material body has the property of spatial extension, it has no inherent...