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The Temporality of Determinacy

Functional Relations in Metaphysics and Science

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  1. Conor Husbands

    1. London, UK

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  • Argues against the notion that laws of nature are time-independent
  • Draws on the foundations of physics and the philosophy of finance
  • Reconciles time-dependent laws with determinism

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Metaphysics has often held that laws of nature, if legitimate, must be time-independent. Yet mounting evidence from the foundations of science suggests that this constraint may be obsolete. This book provides arguments against this atemporality conjecture, which it locates both in metaphysics and in the philosophy of science, drawing on developments in a range of fields, from the foundations of physics to the philosophy of finance. It then seeks to excavate an alternative philosophical lineage which reconciles time-dependent laws with determinism, converging in the thought of Immanuel Kant.

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-18

  3. Determinacy and Functional Relations

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    Pages 19-53

  4. The Temporality of Determinacy I: Philosophy of Non-Physical Sciences

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    Pages 55-134

  5. Temporality of Determinacy II: Philosophy of Physical Sciences

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    Pages 135-214

  6. The Temporality of Determinacy III: Kant and Contemporary Philosophy

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    Pages 215-264

  7. Conclusion

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    Pages 265-280

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 281-301
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Authors and Affiliations

  • London, UK

    Conor Husbands

About the author

Conor Husbands is a UK based philosophical scholar with a broad variety of metaphysical research interests. His recent engagements with the philosophy of time include Klossowski’s Semotic of Intensity: Time, Language and the Vicious Circle (2020) and Esposito’s temporality of finance: Endogeneity and revisability in derivative transactions (2021). He holds an MPhysPhil in Physics & Philosophy from the University of Oxford. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Temporality of Determinacy

  • Book Subtitle: Functional Relations in Metaphysics and Science

  • Authors: Conor Husbands

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86530-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86529-0Published: 17 June 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86532-0Published: 18 June 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-86530-6Published: 16 June 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 301

  • Topics: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science

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