Books written by Quentin Smith

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  Ethical and Religious Thought in Analytic Philosophy of Language

  ... Ethics , and Quantifiers , " Inquiry 4 ( 1960 ) : 259-69 11 Saul Kripke , " A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic ... this article in Michael Loux , ed . , The Possible and the Actual ( Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1979 ) .

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  Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity

  Miller, A. I. (1973) 'A Study of Henri Poincaré's ''Sur la Dynamique de l'E ́lectron''', Arch. Hist. ... Poincaré, H. (1900) 'La théorie de Lorentz et le Principe de Re ́action', Archives ne ́erlandaises des Sciences Exactes et ...

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  Time, Tense, and Reference

  I am also indebted to the editors of this book for close critical comments on an earlier draft . 1. M. Tooley , Time , Tense , and Causation ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1997 ) . 2. Tooley , Time , Tense , and Causation , chap .

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  Language and Time

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR Quentin Smith , coauthor of Theism , Atheism , and Big Bang Cosmology ( with William Craig , OUP , 1993 ) and author of Ethical and Religious Thought in Analytic Philosophy of Language ( 1997 ) , is Professor of ...

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  Time, Change and Freedom: An Introduction to Metaphysics

  It is simpler to assume that the rate at which all physical things changes does not “speed up” on some occasions. The idea that we should adopt the simplest hypothesis and rule out bizarre possibilities for which we have no evidence is ...

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  Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity

  A common view is that laws such as Maxwell's equations possess Lorentz symmetry ''because'' space-time has a Minkowski structure. It is as if we were first given the stage of space-time, and afterwards we wrote laws on it.

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  Time, Change and Freedom: An Introduction to Metaphysics

  Written in an engaging dialogue style, Smith and Oaklander cover metaphysical topics from a student's perspective and introduce key concepts through a process of explanation, reformulation and critique.

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  Time, Change, and Freedom: An Introduction to Metaphysics

  This is the first introduction to metaphysics which is tied together by the idea of time. Time, Change and Freedom explores ideas such as whether there was a beginning of time and the possibility of an infinite past and an eternal future.