PHILOSOPHY OF TIME

Aim of the course: to provide an introduction to the philosophy of time from the perspective of modern science.

Prerequisites for the course: The course is self-contained; it does not presuppose the knowledge of physics or the mathematics.

Course schedule:

1. Manifest vs. physical time

2. Classical spacetimes
   
3. Special relativity and becoming
   
4. General relativity
5. Quantum time
6. Quantum gravity
7. The difference between time and space
8. Laws and time
9. The direction of time
10. Phenomenology and metaphysics of time
11. Psychology of time
    
12. The common now
13. Flow of time

Literature:

• Craig Callender: What makes time special? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)
• Craig Callender: The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
• Huw Price: Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)
• Bryan W. Roberts: Reversing the Arrow of Time (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)
• John D. Norton: Einstein for Everyone, (Nullarbor Press, 2008) URL=https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/index.html