Author: A. N. Whitehead
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107600529
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
This 1922 book proposes an alternative theory of relativity deducing that 'our experience requires and exhibits a basis in uniformity'.
The Principle of Relativity
Author: A. N. Whitehead
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107600529
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
This 1922 book proposes an alternative theory of relativity deducing that 'our experience requires and exhibits a basis in uniformity'.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107600529
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
This 1922 book proposes an alternative theory of relativity deducing that 'our experience requires and exhibits a basis in uniformity'.
The Principle of Relativity With Applications to Physical Science, By A.N. Whitehead
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Relativity (Physics)
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Relativity (Physics)
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The Principle of Relativity with Applications to Physical Science (1922)
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498188951
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498188951
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
Whitehead's Organic Philosophy of Science
Author: Ann L. Plamondon
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438416210
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A new approach to Whitehead's philosophy of science, relating his mature metaphysical system to contemporary discussions in the philosophy of science.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438416210
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A new approach to Whitehead's philosophy of science, relating his mature metaphysical system to contemporary discussions in the philosophy of science.
The Concept of Nature
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1602062137
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Hailed as "one of the most valuable books on the relation of philosophy and science," Alfred North Whitehead's The Concept of Nature, first published in 1920, was an important contribution to the development of philosophic naturalism. Examining the fundamental problems of substance, space, and time, Whitehead assesses the impact of Einstein's theories as well as the then-recent findings of modern physics on the concept of nature. For students and teachers of natural philosophy, this is essential reading. English mathematician and philosopher ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1861-1947) contributed significantly to 20th-century logic and metaphysics. With Bertrand Russell he cowrote the landmark Principia Mathematica, and also authored An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge, The Function of Reason, and Process and Reality.
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1602062137
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Hailed as "one of the most valuable books on the relation of philosophy and science," Alfred North Whitehead's The Concept of Nature, first published in 1920, was an important contribution to the development of philosophic naturalism. Examining the fundamental problems of substance, space, and time, Whitehead assesses the impact of Einstein's theories as well as the then-recent findings of modern physics on the concept of nature. For students and teachers of natural philosophy, this is essential reading. English mathematician and philosopher ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1861-1947) contributed significantly to 20th-century logic and metaphysics. With Bertrand Russell he cowrote the landmark Principia Mathematica, and also authored An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge, The Function of Reason, and Process and Reality.
The Physicist and the Philosopher
Author: Jimena Canales
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691173176
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
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 of time and drove a rift between science and the humanities that persists today. Jimena Canales introduces readers to the revolutionary ideas of Einstein and Bergson, describes how they dramatically collided in Paris, and traces how this clash of worldviews reverberated across the twentieth century. She shows how it provoked responses from figures such as Bertrand Russell and Martin Heidegger, and carried repercussions for American pragmatism, logical positivism, phenomenology, and quantum mechanics. Canales explains how the new technologies of the period—such as wristwatches, radio, and film—helped to shape people’s conceptions of time and further polarized the public debate. She also discusses how Bergson and Einstein, toward the end of their lives, each reflected on his rival’s legacy—Bergson during the Nazi occupation of Paris and Einstein in the context of the first hydrogen bomb explosion. The Physicist and the Philosopher is a magisterial and revealing account that shows how scientific truth was placed on trial in a divided century marked by a new sense of time.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691173176
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
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 of time and drove a rift between science and the humanities that persists today. Jimena Canales introduces readers to the revolutionary ideas of Einstein and Bergson, describes how they dramatically collided in Paris, and traces how this clash of worldviews reverberated across the twentieth century. She shows how it provoked responses from figures such as Bertrand Russell and Martin Heidegger, and carried repercussions for American pragmatism, logical positivism, phenomenology, and quantum mechanics. Canales explains how the new technologies of the period—such as wristwatches, radio, and film—helped to shape people’s conceptions of time and further polarized the public debate. She also discusses how Bergson and Einstein, toward the end of their lives, each reflected on his rival’s legacy—Bergson during the Nazi occupation of Paris and Einstein in the context of the first hydrogen bomb explosion. The Physicist and the Philosopher is a magisterial and revealing account that shows how scientific truth was placed on trial in a divided century marked by a new sense of time.
The Philosophy of Susanne Langer
Author: Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350030589
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive study of one of the most insightful and fertile but also most neglected philosophers of the twentieth century, Susanne Langer. Failure to recognise Langer's seminal philosophical sources has led to frequent misinterpretations and misunderstandings of her unique philosophical thought. Beginning with an overview of Langer's life and education, this study provides a much-needed explanation of how Langer's thinking was shaped by four seminal sources: her mentors Henry Sheffer and Alfred North Whitehead and the European philosophers Ernst Cassirer and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Langer's ability to unite seemingly disparate fields such logic, art, and embodied cognition around the notion of symbolic form, places aesthetics not at the margins of philosophy but at its very centre. By locating Langer's work in the broader context of major developments in twentieth-century European and American philosophy, Dengerink Chaplin shows how she was often ahead of her time. Shedding new light on Langer as an American philosopher whose innovative thought crosses the customary boundaries between analytic and continental philosophy, this book confirms why she continues to have relevance today.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350030589
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive study of one of the most insightful and fertile but also most neglected philosophers of the twentieth century, Susanne Langer. Failure to recognise Langer's seminal philosophical sources has led to frequent misinterpretations and misunderstandings of her unique philosophical thought. Beginning with an overview of Langer's life and education, this study provides a much-needed explanation of how Langer's thinking was shaped by four seminal sources: her mentors Henry Sheffer and Alfred North Whitehead and the European philosophers Ernst Cassirer and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Langer's ability to unite seemingly disparate fields such logic, art, and embodied cognition around the notion of symbolic form, places aesthetics not at the margins of philosophy but at its very centre. By locating Langer's work in the broader context of major developments in twentieth-century European and American philosophy, Dengerink Chaplin shows how she was often ahead of her time. Shedding new light on Langer as an American philosopher whose innovative thought crosses the customary boundaries between analytic and continental philosophy, this book confirms why she continues to have relevance today.
Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics
Author: Ashtekar
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401001111
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
2) the globalization of capital has far outstripped the ability of current labor movements, organized at best on a national level, to conduct an effective defense of the interests of labor within capitalism, let alone to seriously challenge the cap italist system. To develop some form-or forms--of international organization of labor, long an ideological challenge ("Workers of the World Unite") has now become an urgent matter of survival for the labor movements of the world. Here is a challenge, on which I think broad agreement is possible: Even those who think capitalism is capable of indefinite survival must agree that it has functioned best in the past-for example, during the long period of post-World War II expansion when the power of capital has been effectively limited by the countervailing power of labor. Effective exercise of that power has always depended on overcoming the seg mentation of labor due to such factors as locality, race, gender, occupation, etc. , which stilIremain important. Above, I have singled out the two factors that today seem key to me: the split between mental and manual labor, and segmentation by nationality. Let all concerned about the current state of capitalism work to build up the countervailing power of labor, and let time show whether this results in nothing more than the better functioning of capitalism, or whether a new challenge to the system ultimately emerges.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401001111
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
2) the globalization of capital has far outstripped the ability of current labor movements, organized at best on a national level, to conduct an effective defense of the interests of labor within capitalism, let alone to seriously challenge the cap italist system. To develop some form-or forms--of international organization of labor, long an ideological challenge ("Workers of the World Unite") has now become an urgent matter of survival for the labor movements of the world. Here is a challenge, on which I think broad agreement is possible: Even those who think capitalism is capable of indefinite survival must agree that it has functioned best in the past-for example, during the long period of post-World War II expansion when the power of capital has been effectively limited by the countervailing power of labor. Effective exercise of that power has always depended on overcoming the seg mentation of labor due to such factors as locality, race, gender, occupation, etc. , which stilIremain important. Above, I have singled out the two factors that today seem key to me: the split between mental and manual labor, and segmentation by nationality. Let all concerned about the current state of capitalism work to build up the countervailing power of labor, and let time show whether this results in nothing more than the better functioning of capitalism, or whether a new challenge to the system ultimately emerges.
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Bookman's Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description