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DORATO MAURO
(syllabus)
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.
(reference books)
1) Friedel Weinert The March of Time. Evolving Conceptions of Time in the Light of Scientific Discoveries Springer 2022 (per chi non legge l'inglese questo testo è sostituito da P. Redondi, Brevi storie del tempo, Laterza)
2) N. Huggett, 1999, Space from Zeno to Einstein, MIT PRESS
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