Editors: Argyris Nicolaidis , Wolfgang Achtner

The Evolution of Time: Studies of Time in Science, Anthropology, Theology

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Library License: US $236
ISBN: 978-1-60805 445-9 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-60805-444-2 (Online)
Year of Publication: 2013
DOI: 10.2174/97816080544421130101

Introduction

Time - a fundamental component of human thought and experience - is quite enigmatic and elusive when it comes to defining it. In The Evolution of Time: Studies of Time in Science, Anthropology, Theology scholars from the fields of physics, mathematics, biology, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and theology draw from their own field of knowledge and expertise and present their understanding of the time phenomenon. Time as a dynamic interplay of being and becoming, the different temporalities we encounter in nature, the human dimension of time, are all important issues presented and thoroughly analyzed in the e-book. The e-book has a manifest trans-disciplinary character and it is a suitable for readers interested in evolution, the dynamics of time and the complexity of our own conceptions of time.

Foreword

- Pp. i
Christos Tsagas
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Preface

- Pp. ii-v (4)
Argyris Nicolaidis, Wolfgang Achtner
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List of Contributors

- Pp. vi-vii (2)
Argyris Nicolaidis, Wolfgang Achtner
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The Dominion of Time

- Pp. 3-13 (11)
Argyris Nicolaidis
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The Emergence of Temporal Structures in Complex Dynamical Systems

- Pp. 14-28 (15)
Klaus Mainzer
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Cosmic Time and the Evolution of the Universe

- Pp. 29-50 (22)
Peter Mittelstaedt
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Objective and Subjective Time in Anthropic Reasoning

- Pp. 51-71 (21)
Brandon Carter
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The Role of Biological Time in Microbial Self-Organization and Experience of Environmental Alterations

- Pp. 72-93 (22)
Gernot Falkner, Renate Falkner
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Parts of the Brain Represent Parts of the Time: Lessons from Neurodegeneration

- Pp. 94-103 (10)
Hans Förstl
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Time Experience During Mystical States

- Pp. 104-116 (13)
Ulrich Ott
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Forms of Time: Unity in Plurality

- Pp. 117-138 (22)
Jiří Wackermann
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God, Time and Eternal Life

- Pp. 139-161 (23)
Dirk Evers
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Time and Eternity: The Ontological Impact of Kierkegaard’s Concept of Time as Contribution to the Question of the Reality of Time and Human Freedom

- Pp. 162-184 (23)
Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt
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The Timelesness of Eternity from a Neuroscientific and Trinitarian Perspective

- Pp. 185-210 (26)
Wolfgang Achtner
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Index

- Pp. 211-235 (25)
Argyris Nicolaidis, Wolfgang Achtner
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