Hans Mooij

The flow and the map: on the dynamic and static views of time
Time involves a moving present, an increasing past and a decreasing future; but it also involves fixed relationships like earlier and later. Thus, time seems to have dynamic as well as static features. What is the connection between these two characteristics? In particular, the question may arise whether one of them is more basic than the other, and if so: which one, and why. Is time essentially flowing, or is it ultimately and objectively a space-like dimension? Many twentieth-century philosophers (empiricists, phenomenologists and analytical philosophers) have argued about this complex problem. I will discuss its ramifications in the philosophy of physics and the humanities.

Il flusso e la mappa: sulle visioni dinamiche e statiche del tempo
Il tempo coinvolge un presente in movimento, un passato crescente e un futuro decrescente; ma coinvolge relazioni stabili come il prima e il dopo. Inoltre, il tempo sembra avere tratti dinamici e statici allo stesso tempo. Qual è la connessione tra queste due caratteristiche? In particolare la domanda può emergere se uno di loro é più statico di un altro, e se é così: quale e perché. Il tempo sta scorrendo sostanzialmente oppure ultimamente e oggettivamente in uno spazio come dimensione? Molti filosofi del ventesimo secolo (empirici, fenomenologi e filosofi analitici) hanno discusso su questo argomento. Discuterò le sue ramificazioni nella filosofia dei fisici e le umanità.


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Luciano Boi
Creating the physical world ex nihilo?
On the quantum vacuum and its fluctuations

Mario Botta
Architecture between art and science
Ernesto Carafoli
Scientific and artistic creativity.
Towards a unifying concept
Ruth Durrer
The evolution of the universe
Marcus du Sautoy
Symmetry
Maurizio Ferraris
Things and artworks
Elkhonon Goldberg
Many faces of intelligence
Giuseppe O. Longo
The dynamics of beauty
Eugenio Mazzarella
World nihilism and theological nihilism:
a possible definition
Arthur Miller
Art and science:
two cultures or two sides of same coin?

Hans Mooij
The flow and the map:
on the dynamic and static views of time
Piergiorgio Odifreddi
Eternity breaks through Zeno
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Mirror: an optical prosthesis that multiplies
the reflective capacities of the mind

Joerg Rasche
Cycles of re-creation:
psychoanalytical approach to music
Giorgio Vallortigara
Intelligence and human cognition:
mental processing in humble brains
Gabriele Veneziano
Did time have a beginning?
A meeting point for science and philosophy

 



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