B8: The Time of Science and the Time of Our Lives

B8：科学时代和我们生活的时代

• 批准号: 433751582
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Andreas Hüttemann
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Philosophisches Seminar
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/433751582?language=en
• 关键词: B8; Time; Science; Our; Lives

B8 investigates metaphysical and methodological lessons from how modern physics treats time. Issues in the metaphysics of time are particularly interesting from the perspective of inductive metaphysics for two reasons. First, there is a discrepancy between our everyday conception of time (the time of our lives) and how science represents time (the time of science). Second, even within science, and in physics in particular, there are discrepancies between what different theories say about time. These tensions raise difficult questions about how to weigh different kinds of (empirical) data against each other and draw metaphysical conclusions. We will explore these issues with respect to two research questions: (i) What metaphysical theory best explains the apparent directionality of time? (ii) How to understand what has been called ‘the disappearance of time’ in quantum gravity?

B8研究了现代物理学如何对待时间的形而上学和方法论教训。从归纳形而上学的角度来看，时间形而上学中的问题特别有趣，原因有二。首先，我们日常的时间概念（我们生活的时间）和科学如何表示时间（科学的时间）之间存在差异。其次，即使在科学领域，特别是在物理学领域，不同的理论对时间的解释也存在差异。这些紧张关系提出了如何权衡不同种类的（经验）数据并得出形而上学结论的难题。我们将围绕两个研究问题探讨这些问题：（1）什么形而上学理论最能解释时间的明显方向性？(ii)如何理解量子引力中所谓的“时间的消失”？