Territory and Function
Author | : John Friedmann |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780520041059 |
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Author | : John Friedmann |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780520041059 |
Author | : John Friedmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Regional planning |
ISBN | : 9780783748153 |
Author | : John Friedmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Regional planning |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jozef Gijsbertus Maria Hilhorst |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Interorganizational relations |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jozef Gijsbertus Maria Hilhorst |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Regional planning |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Shyam Wuppuluri |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 2018-02-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319724789 |
This volume presents essays by pioneering thinkers including Tyler Burge, Gregory Chaitin, Daniel Dennett, Barry Mazur, Nicholas Humphrey, John Searle and Ian Stewart. Together they illuminate the Map/Territory Distinction that underlies at the foundation of the scientific method, thought and the very reality itself. It is imperative to distinguish Map from the Territory while analyzing any subject but we often mistake map for the territory. Meaning for the Reference. Computational tool for what it computes. Representations are handy and tempting that we often end up committing the category error of over-marrying the representation with what is represented, so much so that the distinction between the former and the latter is lost. This error that has its roots in the pedagogy often generates a plethora of paradoxes/confusions which hinder the proper understanding of the subject. What are wave functions? Fields? Forces? Numbers? Sets? Classes? Operators? Functions? Alphabets and Sentences? Are they a part of our map (theory/representation)? Or do they actually belong to the territory (Reality)? Researcher, like a cartographer, clothes (or creates?) the reality by stitching multitudes of maps that simultaneously co-exist. A simple apple, for example, can be analyzed from several viewpoints beginning with evolution and biology, all the way down its microscopic quantum mechanical components. Is there a reality (or a real apple) out there apart from these maps? How do these various maps interact/intermingle with each other to produce a coherent reality that we interact with? Or do they not? Does our brain uses its own internal maps to facilitate “physicist/mathematician” in us to construct the maps about the external territories in turn? If so, what is the nature of these internal maps? Are there meta-maps? Evolution definitely fences our perception and thereby our ability to construct maps, revealing to us only those aspects beneficial for our survival. But the question is, to what extent? Is there a way out of the metaphorical Platonic cave erected around us by the nature? While “Map is not the territory” as Alfred Korzybski remarked, join us in this journey to know more, while we inquire on the nature and the reality of the maps which try to map the reality out there. The book also includes a foreword by Sir Roger Penrose and an afterword by Dagfinn Follesdal.
Author | : David Newman |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Boundaries |
ISBN | : 9780714680330 |
Within geopolitics, a discipline enjoying a renaissance, ten academics from eight countries expound upon the fluid role of the state in a world simultaneously impacted by globalization and the resurgence of national and ethnic identities. They assess boundaries as social processes; new territorial dimensions (e.g. a treaty of silicon?); and move beyond borders to regional identity (in the Middle East), and pseudo-states (such as the Trans-Dniester Moldovan Republic) as harbingers of a new geopolitics. Contains abstracts of studies first appearing in a special issue of Geopolitics--formerly Political Geography Quarterly --(3/1, Summer 1998; Cass, ISSN 1465-0045). Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : John Bradford Wight |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Regional planning |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert David Sack |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1986-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521311809 |
First published in 1986, this book demonstrates that territoriality for humans is not an instinct, but a powerful and often indispensable geographical strategy used to control people and things by controlling area. This argument is developed by analysing the possible advantages and disadvantages that territoriality can provide, and by considering why some and not others arise at particular times. Major changes are explored in the relationships between territory and society from primitive times to the present day, with special attention to the distinctions between premodern and modern uses of space and territory. Specific analyses of the pre-modern uses of territoriality are provided by the history of the Catholic Church, and, for the modern context, by study of North American political territorial organization and the organization of factory, office, and home.