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Time and History presents the invited papers of the 28th International Wittgenstein Symposium 2005 in Kirchberg/W. (Austria). Renowned scientists and scholars address the issue of time from a variety of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspectives in four sections: philosophy of time, time in the physical sciences, time in the social and cultural sciences, temporal logic, time in history/history of time, and Wittgenstein on time. Questions discussed include general relativity and cosmology, the physical basis of the arrow of time, the linguistics of temporal expressions, temporal logic, time in the social sciences, time in culture and the arts. Outside the natural sciences, time typically appears as history and in historiography in different forms, like a history of our conceptions of time. The first chapter of the book is dedicated to the major positions in contemporary philosophy of time. Is there a real sense of past, present, and future, or is time just a special coordinate among others? What does it mean that identity persists over time? The importance of Wittgenstein for present-day philosophy notwithstanding, his ideas about time have hitherto received only little attention. The final chapter, for the first time, provides an extensive discussion of his respective views.

Friedrich Stadler is associate professor at the University of Vienna and founding director of the Institute Vienna Circle. His main fields of research are history and philosophy of science,

theory/methodology of the historical and cultural sciences, intellectual migration and exile studies. He is author of Studien zum Wiener Kreis (Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp 1997), English edition: The Vienna Circle (Vienna-New York: Springer 2001), and editor of 30 volumes.

Michael Stöltzner is assistant professor at the University of Wuppertal. His main areas of research include the philosophy and history of physics and applied mathematics, the history of philosophy of science, the epistemology of the applied sciences, and the aesthetic dimension of science.

ISBN: 978-3-938793-17-6 621 pp Hardcover €79.00

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