Time in philosophy and in physics

from Kant and Einstein to Gödel

Hao Wang

pp. 215-234

in: Synthese 102 (2), 1995.

Abstract

The essay centers on Gödel's views on the place of our intuitive concept of time in philosophy and in physics. It presents my interpretation of his work on the theory of relativity, his observations on the relationship between Einstein's theory and Kantian philosophy, as well as some of the scattered remarks in his conversations with me in the seventies — namely, those on the philosophies of Leibniz, Hegel and Husserl — as a successor of Kant — in relation to their conceptions of time.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund

Kant Immanuel

Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm

Einstein Albert

Gödel Kurt