Ebook: The Study of Time III: Proceedings of the Third Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time Alpbach—Austria

The papers in this volume were delivered and responded to at the Third Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time. The meeting took place during sunny days, punctuated by an occasional brief storm, in the confer­ ence facilities of the Österreichisches College in Alpbach, Austria, from ]uly 1 to ]uly 10, 1976. In the middle of it came ]uly 4, the 200th anniversary of the Declaration ofindependence, and in honor ofparticipants from the United States there was a special session of papers on the subject of Freedom and Time. [See Fraser, Park in this volume. ] The effect of the papers was kaleidoscopic; reading the table of contents one can surmise the experience of those enthusiasts, and there were several, who heard them all. I think that most people who have been puzzled about time will agree that it is not clear wh at the puzzle is or from what direction the insights will come that will enable us to understand the situation a litde more clearly. As one of the participants wrote afterwards, "After all , we do not know apriori whether there exists areal unity in studies about time, but if one exists it must reveal itself progressively in the course of successive experiences such as these lectures. If it were easy to find, it would have been found already without the Society's help.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Metaphysical Presuppositions and the Study of Time....Pages 1-21
Levels of Language in Discourse about Time....Pages 22-52
The Third Storm of the Twentieth Century: The Einstein Paradox....Pages 53-73
Space—Time Singularities in Cosmology and Black Hole Evaporations....Pages 74-93
Beneath Time: Explorations in Quantum Topology....Pages 94-114
Thermodynamics, Cosmology and the Physical Constants....Pages 115-140
On Two Fundamental Laws of Nature and the Role of Time in Time—Space Manifold....Pages 141-166
The Theory of Space—like Time....Pages 167-187
Biological Clocks and Their Synchronizers....Pages 188-215
The Living Clocks of Marine Organisms....Pages 216-236
The Measurement of Biological and Social Changes....Pages 237-268
Time, Memory, and Affect: Experimental Studies of the Subjective Past....Pages 269-293
Future Time Perspective and Ego Strength....Pages 294-306
The Objectivity, or Otherwise, of the Present....Pages 307-332
Ideas of Beginnings and Endings in Cosmology....Pages 333-350
The Past and the Future....Pages 351-369
The Boundries of the Notion of Time....Pages 370-390
Temporal Inventories and Time Structuring in Large Organizations....Pages 391-418
The Individual and Society....Pages 419-443
City Rhythms....Pages 444-470
The Study of Time in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union....Pages 471-499
Fiction: The Language of Time—Thomas Mann and James Joyce....Pages 500-511
The Changing Iconography of Father Time....Pages 512-539
Time in the Musical Consciousness of Old High Civilizations—East and West....Pages 540-577
Poiesis: Time and Artistic Discourse....Pages 578-613
Time, Space and Freewill: The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence....Pages 614-633
The Concept of Time in the Mithraic Mysteries....Pages 634-657
Time and Sacrifice—the Sacrifice of Time and the Ritual of Modernity....Pages 658-682
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