Teacher
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DORATO MAURO
(syllabus)
The course will deal in general with some themes from the history and philosophy of space and time. Short anthological excerpts from Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Galileo, Descartes, Leibniz Newton, Kant Einstein and Bergson will be read. One of the main themes of the course will concern the nature of the present moment: its interest depends on the fact that while physics does not deal with it, from the point of view of our experience it separates the immutable past from a future that is not fatalistically understood, but instead appears 'open' to our free decision.
(reference books)
1) Friedel Weinert The March of Time. Evolving Conceptions of Time in the Light of Scientific Discoveries Springer 2022
2) N. Huggett, 1999, Space from Zeno to Einstein, MIT PRESS
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