Mary Calkins, Victoria Welby, and the spatialization of time.
This paper explores a trans-Atlantic clash about time: in 1899, American philosopher Mary Calkins argued we should not spatialize time; in 1899, British philosopher Victoria Welby argued we should. I take their disagreement as a starting point to contextualize, study, and compare the accounts of tim...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 205 - 231 |
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