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The Flowand the Map: On the Dynamic and Static Views of Time

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The Two Cultures: Shared Problems

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About 50 years ago C.P. Snow delivered his famous lecture on the two cultures. We have to go about a hundred years back, however, to find similar landmarks in the history of the philosophy of time. At that moment three things happened that greatly influenced the philosophy of time in the twentieth century.

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  1. Rijksuniversitat Groningen, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The Netherlands

    J. J. A. Mooij

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  1. Dipartimento di Chimica Biologica, Università degli Studi di Padova Istituto Veneto di Medicina Molecolare, Padova, Italy

    Ernesto Carafoli

  2. Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy

    Gian Antonio Danieli

  3. Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica, Elettronica e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy

    Giuseppe O. Longo

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Mooij, J.J.A. (2009). The Flowand the Map: On the Dynamic and Static Views of Time. In: Carafoli, E., Danieli, G.A., Longo, G.O. (eds) The Two Cultures: Shared Problems. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0869-4_2

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