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| Author | : Michel Weber |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 1418 |
| Release | : 2013-04-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3110333295 |
Gathering 115 entries written by 101 internationally renowned experts in their fields, the Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought aims at canvassing the current state of knowledge in Whiteheadian scholarship and at identifying promising directions for future investigations through (internal) cross-elucidation and (external) interdisciplinary development. Two kinds of entries are weaved together in order to interpret Whitehead secundum Whitehead and to read him from the vantage point of interdisciplinary and crossdisciplinary research. The “thematic ” entries provide (i) a broad contextualisation of the issue at stake; (ii) a focus on Whitehead's treatment (if any) or of a possible Whiteheadian treatment of the issue; (iii) a history of relevant scholarship; (iv) a personal assessment by the Author. The “biographical ” entries provide (i) a brief vita of the targeted thinker; (ii) a sketch of his/her categories relevant to the Whiteheadian scholarship; (iii) a personal assessment of the actual (or possible) Whiteheadian semantic transfer to or from the thinker.
| Author | : Timothy E. Eastman |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2016-02-22 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 311045047X |
Through both an historical and philosophical analysis of the concept of possibility, we show how including both potentiality and actuality as part of the real is both compatible with experience and contributes to solving key problems of fundamental process and emergence. The book is organized into four main sections that incorporate our routes to potentiality: (1) potentiality in modern science [history and philosophy; quantum physics and complexity]; (2) Relational Realism [ontological interpretation of quantum physics; philosophy and logic]; (3) Process Physics [ontological interpretation of relativity theory; physics and philosophy]; (4) on speculative philosophy and physics [limitations and approximations; process philosophy]. We conclude that certain fundamental problems in modern physics require complementary analyses of certain philosophical and metaphysical issues, and that such scholarship reveals intrinsic features and limits of determinism, potentiality and emergence that enable, among others, important progress on the quantum theory of measurement problem and new understandings of emergence.
| Author | : Jayant Narlikar |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1 |
| Release | : 2008-07-03 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0521865042 |
Thought-provoking book for undergraduate students and general readers on the evolution of cosmology.
| Author | : Donald C. Williams |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0198810385 |
Donald C. Williams (1899-1983) was a key figure in the development of analytic philosophy. This book will be the definitive source for his highly original work, which did much to bring metaphysics back into fashion. It presents six classic papers and six previously unpublished, revealing his full philosophical vision for the first time.
| Author | : Geraint F. Lewis |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 395 |
| Release | : 2016-10-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1316715221 |
Over the last forty years, scientists have uncovered evidence that if the Universe had been forged with even slightly different properties, life as we know it - and life as we can imagine it - would be impossible. Join us on a journey through how we understand the Universe, from its most basic particles and forces, to planets, stars and galaxies, and back through cosmic history to the birth of the cosmos. Conflicting notions about our place in the Universe are defined, defended and critiqued from scientific, philosophical and religious viewpoints. The authors' engaging and witty style addresses what fine-tuning might mean for the future of physics and the search for the ultimate laws of nature. Tackling difficult questions and providing thought-provoking answers, this volumes challenges us to consider our place in the cosmos, regardless of our initial convictions.
| Author | : Andrew M. Davis |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 460 |
| Release | : 2021-12-13 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3030813967 |
This book newly articulates the international and interdisciplinary reach of Whitehead’s organic process cosmology for a variety of topics across science and philosophy, and in dialogue with a variety historical and contemporary voices. Integrating Whitehead’s thought with the insights of Bergson, James, Pierce, Merleau-Ponty, Descola, Fuchs, Hofmann, Grof and many others, contributors from around the world reveal the relevance of process philosophy to physics, cosmology, astrobiology, ecology, metaphysics, aesthetics, psychedelics, and religion. A global collection, this book expresses multivocal possibilities for the development of process cosmology after Whitehead.
| Author | : Daniel Graham |
| Publisher | : OUP USA |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2013-08-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0199959781 |
In Science before Socrates, Daniel W. Graham argues against the belief that the Presocratic philosophers did not produce any empirical science and that the first major Greek science, astronomy, did not develop until at least the time of Plato. Instead, Graham proposes that the advances made by Presocratic philosophers in the study of astronomy deserve to be considered as scientific contributions.
| Author | : Khalil Chamcham |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 527 |
| Release | : 2017-04-13 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1107145392 |
This book addresses foundational questions raised by observational and theoretical progress in modern cosmology. As the foundational volume of an emerging academic discipline, experts from relevant fields lay out the fundamental problems of contemporary cosmology and explore the routes toward finding possible solutions, for a broad academic audience.
| Author | : Helge Kragh |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2011-01-07 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0191003344 |
Throughout history, people have tried to construct 'theories of everything': highly ambitious attempts to understand nature in its totality. This account presents these theories in their historical contexts, from little-known hypotheses from the past to modern developments such as the theory of superstrings, the anthropic principle, and ideas of many universes, and uses them to problematize the limits of scientific knowledge. Do claims to theories of everything belong to science at all? Which are the epistemic standards on which an alleged scientific theory of the universe - or the multiverse - is to be judged? Such questions are currently being discussed by physicists and cosmologists, but rarely within a historical perspective. This book argues that these questions have a history and that knowledge of the historical development of 'higher speculations' may inform and qualify the current debate on the nature and limits of scientific explanation.
| Author | : Prof Peter Coles |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 514 |
| Release | : 2003-04-04 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0470852992 |
This is the 2nd edition of a highly successful title on thisfascinating and complex subject. Concentrating primarily on thetheory behind the origin and the evolution of the universe, andwhere appropriate relating it to observation, the new features ofthe this addition include: An overall introduction to the book Two new chapters: Gravitational Lensing and GravitationalWaves Each part has a collection of exercises with solutions tonumerical parts at the end of the book Contains a table of physical constants The addition of a consolidated bibilography
