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Time in Cosmology

McCoy, C.D. and Callender, Craig (2017) Time in Cosmology. [Preprint]

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Abstract

Readers familiar with the workhorse of cosmology, the hot big bang model, may think that cosmology raises little of interest about time. As cosmological models are just relativistic spacetimes, time is understood just as it is in relativity theory, and all cosmology adds is a few bells and whistles such as inflation and the big bang and no more. The aim of this chapter is to show that this opinion is not completely
right...and may well be dead wrong. In our survey, we show how the hot big bang model invites deep questions about the nature of time, how inflationary cosmology has led to interesting new perspectives on time, and how cosmological speculation continues to entertain dramatically different models of time altogether. Together these issues indicate that the philosopher interested in the nature of time would do well to know a little about modern cosmology.


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Item Type: Preprint
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McCoy, C.D.casey.mccoy@ed.ac.uk0000-0002-7921-4911
Callender, Craigccallender@ucsd.edu
Additional Information: Forthcoming in the Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Physics, edited by Eleanor Knox and Alastair Wilson
Keywords: time, cosmology
Subjects: General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics
Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology
Depositing User: Dr. Casey McCoy
Date Deposited: 07 Jun 2018 21:27
Last Modified: 07 Jun 2018 21:27
Item ID: 14756
Subjects: General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics
Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology
Date: 21 August 2017
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14756

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