Space, Time and the Limits of Human Understanding
In this compendium of essays, some of the world’s leading thinkers discuss their conceptions of space and time, as viewed through the lens of their own discipline. With an epilogue on the limits of human understanding, this volume hosts contributions from six or more diverse fields. It presumes only...
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| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Philosophy: Śrīharṣa on the Indefinability of Time by Jonathan Duquette and Krishnamurti Ramasubramanian
- Why Spacetime Has a Life of its Own by James Robert Brown
- From Time to Time by Nathan Salmon
- Relativity Theory may not have the last Word on the Nature of Time: Quantum Theory and Probabilism by Nicholas Maxwell
- Space as a Source and as an Object of Knowledge: The Transformation of the Concept of Space in the Post-Kantian Philosophy of Geometry by Francesca Biagioli
- Space, Time and (how they) Matter by Valia Allori
- The Phenomenology of Space and Time: Husserl, Sartre, Derrida by Hans Herlof Grelland
- Time and Space in Ancient India, Pre-Philosophical Period by Michael Witzel and Nataliya Yanchevskaya
- Time in Physics and Time in Awareness by E. C. G. Sudarshan
- Physics: The Future’s Not Ours to See, by Tony Sudbury
- Nature’s Book Keeping System by Gerard ‘t Hooft
- An anomaly in space and time and the origin of dynamics by Joan A. Vaccaro
- Spacetime and Reality: Facing the Ultimate Judge by Vesselin Petkov
- Hermann Weyl’s Space-Time Geometry and its Impact on Theories of Fundamental Interactions by Norbert Straumann
- Space, Time, and Adynamical Explanation in the Relational Blockworld by W.M. Stuckey, Michael Silberstein, and Timothy McDevitt
- Matter, Space, Time, and Motion: A Unified Gravitational Perspective by C. S. Unnikrishnan
- Spacetime is Doomed by George Musser
- Mathematics: Geometry and Physical Space by Mary Leng
- The Geometry of Manifolds and the Perception of Space by Raymond O. Wells, Jr
- Topos Theoretic Approach to Space and Time by Goro C. Kato
- Paradox? The Mathematics of Space-Time and the Limits of Human Understanding by Paul Ernest
- General Relativity, Time, and Determinism by James Isenberg
- “Now” has an infinitesimal positive duration by Reuben Hersh
- The Fundamental Problem of Dynamics by Julian Barbour
- What’s wrong with the Platonic ideal of space and time? by Lorenzo Sadun
- Biology/Cognitive Science: Syntactic Space by Rajesh Kasturirangan
- Time measurement in living systems: Human understanding and health implications by L Abhilash and Vijay Kumar Sharma
- The cellular space-the space of life by Pier Luigi Luisi
- The consciousness of space, the space of consciousness by Mauro Bergonzi and Pier Luigi Luisi
- Time and Suffering (False metaphors, (de)synchronous times, and internal dynamics) by Norman Sieroka
- Evolutionary Time and the Creation of the Space of Life by Randall E. Auxier
- Computer Science: A computational mathematics view of space, time and complexity by David H. Bailey and Jonathan M. Borwein
- The Black Hole in Mathematics by A. K. Dewdney
- Gödel’s Ontological Dreams by Gary Mar
- ‘Photographing the Footsteps of Time’: Space and Time in Charles Babbage’s Calculating Engines by Doron Swade
- Gödel incompleteness and the empirical sciences by N. C. A. da Costa and F. A. Doria
- Miscellaneous: The Novel and the Map: Spatiotemporal Form and Discourse in Literary Cartography by Robert T. Tally Jr
- Time, Space, and the Human Geographies of Opportunity by Donald G. Janelle
- Losing Time and Space: Experiencing Immersion by Diana J. Reichenbach. <.
