Full-text resources of CEJSH and other databases are now available in the new Library of Science.
Visit https://bibliotekanauki.pl

PL EN


2015 | 24 | 2 | 143–153

Article title

Is time reversible?

Title variants

Languages of publication

EN

Abstracts

EN
This paper presents an elementary logical proof of time irreversibility. To this effect, we construct a simple mathematical model of a process, which can demonstrably be shown to be irreversible in the sense that it cannot be reproduced in a backward direction by the very conditions of its construction. To model this process we employ a puzzle problem (paradox) referred to in the literature as “Austin’s Dog” or “Trojan Fly”.

Year

Volume

24

Issue

2

Pages

143–153

Physical description

Dates

published
2015-06-01
online
2014-12-09

Contributors

  • Kryvyi Rih National University, Department of Philosophy, Kryvyi Rih 50086, Ukraine

References

  • Clark, M., Paradoxes from A to Z, London and New York, 2002: Routledge.
  • Davies, P, “That mysterious flow”, Scientific American, 287, 3 (2002): 40–45. DOI: 10.1038/scientificamerican0902-40
  • Deutsch, D., The Fabric of Reality, Penguin Books, 1998.
  • Gardner, M., Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements, New York 1983: W.H. Freeman and Company.
  • Husserl, E., Vorlesungen zur Phänomenologie des inneren Zeitbewußtseins, Halle 1928: Max Niemeyer Verlag.
  • Laraudogoitia, J. P., “Dispositions and the Trojan Fly”, Noûs, 47 (2013). DOI: 10.1111/nous.12012
  • Leibniz, G.W., and S. Clarke, Correspondence, Edited, with Introduction, by R. Ariew, Indianapolis/Cambridge 2000: Hackett Publishing Co. Inc.
  • Overseth, O. E., “Experiments in time reversal”, Scientific American, 221 (1969): 88–101. DOI: 10.1038/scientificamerican1069-88
  • Plato. Statesman.
  • Price, H., Time’s Arrow and Archimedes’ Point, Oxford University Press 1996. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195117981.001.0001
  • Price, H., “The flow of time”, pp. 276–311 in C. Callender (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Time, Oxford 2011: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199298204.003.0010
  • Reichenbach, H., The Direction of Time, Berkeley 1956: University of Los Angeles Press.
  • Salmon, W., Space, Time, and Motion: A Philosophical Introduction, Minneapolis 1980: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Snieder, R., “Time-reversal invariance and the relation between wave chaos and classical chaos”, pp. 1–16 in Fink et al. (eds.) Imaging of Complex Media with Acoustic and Seismic Waves, Springer 2002. DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44680-X_1
  • Uffink, J., “Bluff your way in the second law of thermodynamics”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 32 (2001): 305–394. DOI: 10.1016/S1355-2198(01)00016-8
  • Whitrow, G.J., The Natural Philosophy of Time, Oxford 1980: the Clarendon Press.
  • Wittgenstein, L. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
  • Zwart, P.J., “The flow of time”, Synthese, 24 (1972): 133–158. DOI: 10.1007/BF00540146

Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.desklight-65649660-59d8-4817-b6ff-e4e2986cd79f
JavaScript is turned off in your web browser. Turn it on to take full advantage of this site, then refresh the page.