Presents an innovative view of time and contemporary physics. The author urges physicists, philosophers, and anyone who has ever pondered the paradoxes of time to look at the world from a fresh perspective, and throws light on some of the great mysteries of the universe.

The View from Nowhen; More Apt to Be Lost than Got: The Lessons of the Second Law; New light on The Arrow of Radiation; Arrows and Error in Contemporary Cosmology; Innocence and Symmetry in Microphysics; In Search of the Third Arrow; Convention Objectified and the Past Unlocked; Einstein's Issue: The Puzzle of Contemporary Quantum Theory; The Case for Advanced Action; Overview.

"The book is a tour de force. Price addresses some of the most difficult issues in physics and philosophy, and offers highly original solutions. Yet the book is written in a style which assumes no previous knowledge, and will be accessible to any reader who is prepared to think hard."--Times Literary Supplement "Time's Arrow is...a highly original and important contribution to the philosophy and physics of time. It is path-breaking in many areas, since it covers topics rarely treated by philosophers and offers novel solutions to many problems."--British Journal for the Philosophy of Science "Price is a philosopher with a real grasp of fundamental physics. He offers an original slant on some profound issues, where our understanding has advanced little since the time of St. Augustine."--The Times "[Huw Price] has taken a subject understood by a few experts and thrown open the door to the masses....Enjoy it as a feast for the imagination."--The Sunday Times (London) "Price's book is a useful addition to the literature on time, particularly as it reveals the influence of modern science on the way a philosopher thinks."--New Scientist "Succeeds with great clarity....The author has done physicists a great service in laying out so clearly and critically the nature of the various time-asymmetry problems of physics."--Nature "Huw Price's book, Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point is an uncompromising study of temporal asymmetry from an atemporal point of view. The result is a sustained, careful, unfailingly lucid argument to some surprising conclusions."--Steven Savitt, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science "Huw Price, who became known as 'the philosopher who took on Stephen Hawking on the arrow of time' (Scientific American, Oct. 1989), has now formulated his own lucid account of this fundamental aspect of time and the concept of causality. He presents it in a marvelously clear and picturesque manner that allows even the layman to see the point of each part of the problem, and to understand its importance for the whole. I am convinced that this book will become a milestone of interdisciplinary debate in its best and fertile sense."--H. D. Zeh, author of The Physical Basis of the Direction of Time "Huw Price's Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point provides a thoughtful (and thought-provoking) analysis of the time-asymmetry problem of physics which is in many ways deeper and more illuminating than accounts to be found elsewhere."--Roger Penrose, Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford and author of Shadows of the Mind and The Emperor's New Mind "This is the best philosophical book on time that I have read. It is beautifully clear, precise but non-technical, and, once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down."--Robert Weingard, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers "Huw Price is one of a handful of philosophers with a thorough grasp of the notorious arrow of time problem.... In this challenging book, Price applies critical reasoning and penetrating insight to the current theories of physics and cosmology that have a bearing on this problem. Among the many ideas discussed here is the controversial claim that time's arrow would reverse in a recontracting universe."--Paul Davies, Professor of Natural Philosophy, The University of Adelaide, and author of About Time and The Physics of Time Asymmetry "Particularly illuminating in that Price shows how philosophers and physicists have failed to see temporal symmetries because of the influence of their own temporally asymmetric perspective.... A real advance in the interpretation of quantum mechanics. Not only philosophers of science but also theoretical physicists should be excited about this lovely book."--J.J.C. Smart, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University

Huw Price is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Facts and the Function of Truth (1988) and a wide range of articles in leading journals such as The Journal of Philosophy, Mind, and Nature.