Author: Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Nature of the Physical World
Author: Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Nature of the Physical World
Author: Arthur Stanley Eddington
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Nature of the Physical World" by Arthur Stanley Eddington. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Nature of the Physical World" by Arthur Stanley Eddington. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Nature of the Physical World
Author: Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Mathematics and the Physical World
Author: Morris Kline
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486136310
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Stimulating account of development of mathematics from arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonometry, to calculus, differential equations, and non-Euclidean geometries. Also describes how math is used in optics, astronomy, and other phenomena.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486136310
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Stimulating account of development of mathematics from arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonometry, to calculus, differential equations, and non-Euclidean geometries. Also describes how math is used in optics, astronomy, and other phenomena.
New Pathways In Science
Author: Arthur Stanley Eddington
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473383080
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This vintage book contains a fascinating book on scientific theory and development, written by sir Arthur Eddington. It contains a discussion of the philosophical outlook of modern science, a summary of then-contemporary knowledge, and a number of fascinating and insightful lectures on the various scientific topics. The chapters of this book include: 'Science and Experience', 'Dramatis Personae', 'The End of the World', 'The Decline of Determinism', 'Indeterminacy and Quantum Theory', 'Probability', 'The Constitution of the Stars', 'Subatomic Energy', 'Cosmic Clouds and Nebulae', and more. We are republishing this vintage text now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473383080
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This vintage book contains a fascinating book on scientific theory and development, written by sir Arthur Eddington. It contains a discussion of the philosophical outlook of modern science, a summary of then-contemporary knowledge, and a number of fascinating and insightful lectures on the various scientific topics. The chapters of this book include: 'Science and Experience', 'Dramatis Personae', 'The End of the World', 'The Decline of Determinism', 'Indeterminacy and Quantum Theory', 'Probability', 'The Constitution of the Stars', 'Subatomic Energy', 'Cosmic Clouds and Nebulae', and more. We are republishing this vintage text now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
The Human World in the Physical Universe
Author: Nicholas Maxwell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742512269
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
How is it possible for the world as we experience it to exist embedded in the physical universe? How can there be sensory qualities, consciousness, freedom, science and art, friendship, love, justice--all that which gives meaning and value to life--if the world really is more or less as modern science tells us it is? This is the problem that is tackled by this book. The solution proposed is that physics describes only a selected aspect of all that exists--that aspect which determines the way events unfold. Sensory qualities, inner experiences, consciousness, meaning and value, all these exist but lie beyond the scope of physics, and of that part of science that can be reduced to physics. Furthermore, these human features of the world are to be explained and understood, not scientifically, but "personalistically," a kind of understanding distinct from, and not reducible to, science. This view that the world is riddled with what may be called "double comprehensibility" leads to a proposed solution to the philosophical mind/body problem, and to the problem of free will; it leads to a reinterpretation of Darwin's theory of evolution, and to an account of the evolution of consciousness and free will. After a discussion of the location of consciousness in the brain, the book concludes with a proposal as to how academic inquiry might be changed so that it becomes a kind of inquiry rationally designed to help humanity create a more civilized human world in the physical universe.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742512269
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
How is it possible for the world as we experience it to exist embedded in the physical universe? How can there be sensory qualities, consciousness, freedom, science and art, friendship, love, justice--all that which gives meaning and value to life--if the world really is more or less as modern science tells us it is? This is the problem that is tackled by this book. The solution proposed is that physics describes only a selected aspect of all that exists--that aspect which determines the way events unfold. Sensory qualities, inner experiences, consciousness, meaning and value, all these exist but lie beyond the scope of physics, and of that part of science that can be reduced to physics. Furthermore, these human features of the world are to be explained and understood, not scientifically, but "personalistically," a kind of understanding distinct from, and not reducible to, science. This view that the world is riddled with what may be called "double comprehensibility" leads to a proposed solution to the philosophical mind/body problem, and to the problem of free will; it leads to a reinterpretation of Darwin's theory of evolution, and to an account of the evolution of consciousness and free will. After a discussion of the location of consciousness in the brain, the book concludes with a proposal as to how academic inquiry might be changed so that it becomes a kind of inquiry rationally designed to help humanity create a more civilized human world in the physical universe.
The Origin and History of the English Language and of the Early Literature it Embodies
Author: George Perkins Marsh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Mind in a Physical World
Author: Jaegwon Kim
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262611534
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. Kim construes the mind-body problem as that of finding a place for the mind in a world that is fundamentally physical. Among other points, he redefines the roles of supervenience and emergence in the discussion of the mind-body problem. Arguing that various contemporary accounts of mental causation are inadequate, he offers his own partially reductionist solution on the basis of a novel model of reduction. Retaining the informal tone of the lecture format, the book is clear yet sophisticated.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262611534
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. Kim construes the mind-body problem as that of finding a place for the mind in a world that is fundamentally physical. Among other points, he redefines the roles of supervenience and emergence in the discussion of the mind-body problem. Arguing that various contemporary accounts of mental causation are inadequate, he offers his own partially reductionist solution on the basis of a novel model of reduction. Retaining the informal tone of the lecture format, the book is clear yet sophisticated.
The Nature of Physical Reality
Author: Subhash Kak
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781988207070
Category : Paradox
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"The book presents a summary of the current scientific understanding of the physical world, and shows that man's questioning across the ages has had continuity in terms of preoccupation with paradoxes."--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781988207070
Category : Paradox
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"The book presents a summary of the current scientific understanding of the physical world, and shows that man's questioning across the ages has had continuity in terms of preoccupation with paradoxes."--
Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter
Author: Terrence W. Deacon
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393049914
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
Examines the emergent processes that bridge the gap between organisms that think and have consciousness and those that do not and discusses the origins of life, information, and free will.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393049914
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
Examines the emergent processes that bridge the gap between organisms that think and have consciousness and those that do not and discusses the origins of life, information, and free will.