The Illusion of Now | Julian Barbour, Tim Maudlin, Emily Thomas

Philosophy For Our Times

English - June 18, 2019 08:32 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MB - ★★★★ - 260 ratings
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Past and future are worlds we can never inhabit. We live of necessity in the present. But physicists and philosophers with very different outlooks, from Einstein to Derrida, claim that the present is an illusion. Are we deluded by experience into imagining the present is real? In this episode of Philosophy for our Times, Philosopher of science Tim Maudlin joins author of The End of Time Julian Barbour and philosopher and historian of science Emily Thomas go in search of lost time.

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