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Cosmological and Psychological Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Cosmological and Psychological Time

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-12-16
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book examines the many faces of philosophy of time, including the metaphysical aspects, natural science issues, and the consciousness of time. It brings together the different methodologies of investigating the philosophy of time. It does so to counter the growing fragmentation of the field with regard to discussions, and the existing cleavage between analytic and continental traditions in philosophy. The book’s multidirectional approach to the notion of time contributes to a better understanding of time's metaphysical, physical and phenomenological aspects. It helps clarify the presuppositions underpinning the analytic and continental traditions in the philosophy of time and offers ways in which the differences between them can be bridged.

A Tenth of a Second
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

A Tenth of a Second

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminates the work of important thinkers of the last two centuries. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies—telegraphy, photography, cinematography—Jimena Canales locates the reverberations of this “perceptual moment” throughout culture. ...

The Physicist and the Philosopher
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 487

The Physicist and the Philosopher

The explosive debate that transformed our views about time and scientific truth On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time should not be understood exclusively through the lens of science, criticized Einstein's theory of time for being a metaphysics grafted on to science, one that ignored the intuitive aspects of time. The Physicist and the Philosopher tells the remarkable story of how this explosive debate transformed our understanding ...

The Comparative Reception of Relativity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 419

The Comparative Reception of Relativity

The present volume grew out of a double session of the Boston Collo quium for the Philosophy of Science held in Boston on March 25, 1983. The papers presented there (by Biezunski, Glick, Goldberg, and Judith Goodstein!) offered both sufficient comparability to establish regulari ties in the reception of relativity and Einstein's impact in France, Spain, the United States and Italy, and sufficient contrast to suggest the salience of national inflections in the process. The interaction among the participants and the added perspectives offered by members of the audience suggested the interest of commissioning articles for a more inclusive volume which would cover as many national cases as we co...

Concepts of Simultaneity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Concepts of Simultaneity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-09-12
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

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The New Aspects of Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

The New Aspects of Time

At last his students and colleagues, his friends and his friendly critics, his fellow-scientist and fellow-philosophers, have the works of Milic Capek before them in one volume, aside from his books of course. Now the development of his interests and his thoughts, always led centrally by his concern to understand 'the philosophical impact of contemporary physics', becomes clear. In the nearly 90 essays and papers, and in his book on the philosophical impact as well as his classical restatement of process philosophy in his Bergson and Modern Physics, Professor Capek establishes one of the fundamental alternatives to the comprehension of human experience, and thereby of the world. Capek is certainly to be seen with respect and admiration, for he has dealt with the deepest and toughest of scientific as well as metaphysical problems: his major efforts in the philosophy of mind focussed upon the time of experience, and in the philosophy of physics focussed upon continuity, causality and again the temporal, now in the world-picture.

The Einstein Myth and the Ives Papers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 462
Philosophers and Einstein's Relativity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 207

Philosophers and Einstein's Relativity

This book offers an up-to-date insight into the early philosophical debate on Einsteinian relativity. The essays explore the reception and interpretation of Einstein’s ideas by some of the most important philosophical schools of the time, such as logical positivism (Reichenbach), neo-Kantianism (Cassirer, Natorp), critical realism (Sellars), and radical empiricism (Mach). The book is aimed at physicists and historians of science researching the epistemological implications of the theory of relativity, as well as to scholars in philosophy interested in understanding how leading philosophical figures of the early twentieth century reacted to the relativistic revolution.

Protophysik
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 435

Protophysik

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Atlantis Rising Magazine - 121 January/February 2017
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

Atlantis Rising Magazine - 121 January/February 2017

In this downloadable ebook version: EMP WARS Are the Exotic Weapons of the Future Already Here? BY STEVEN SORA CLUES TO THE GREAT CATASTROPHE The Author of 'Atlantis in the Caribbean' Searches for the Truth of the Younger Dryas BY ANDREW COLLINS CHALLENGING EINSTEIN Does Special Relativity Explain Anything? BY STEPHEN ROBBINS, Ph.D. SEARCHING FOR THE MAN CALLED NOAH What Can 'Ark'-aeology Reveal About Him? BY SUSAN MARTINEZ, Ph.D. KHUFU PAPYRI UNVEILED Can the 'Oldest Papyrus' Give Us the True Age of the Great Pyramid or Not? BY ROBERT M. SCHOCH, Ph.D. ALTERNATIVE NEWS INDUS CIVILIZATION NOT PRIMITIVE EARLIEST AMERICANS NOT SIBERIAN EASTER ISLAND NOT WARLIKE IS THIS PALEOLITHIC ALUMINUM? CAN...