Università Roma Tre

In general, the course will focus on the history and philosophy of space and time, giving particular emphasis to the relationship between physical and experiential time. Within this relationship, the nature of the present moment is particularly important: while physics can safely ignore such a moment, in our experience it separates an immutable past from a future that is not conceived deterministically or fatalistically but is rather regarded as open to our free decisions. We will read excerpts of classics authors in the history of philosophy that have dealt in particular with these questions. We will introduce the student to the deep link existing between chance and irreversibility

1. MAZUR: THE MOTION PARADOX, Dutton, 2007 (the first three chapters)
2. McTaggart J.,The unreality of time Mind 1908
3 Redondi Storie del tempo (second part), Laterza
4 Weatherall J. The physics of nothing. Yale University Press
5. Space from Zeno to Einstein, ed. by N. HUGGETT, The MIT PRESS, 200
6. Weatherall, The physics of void,
6. Callender C. Edney R. Introducing time, Icon Books and Totem Books, 2001