Space, Time, and the Limits of Human Understanding,
Автор: Locke, John Название: Essay concerning human understanding ISBN: 0199296626 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199296620 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2137 р. 2374.00-10% Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: In his Essay, John Locke sets out his theory of knowledge and how we acquire it. He shows how all our ideas are grounded in human experience and analyses the extent of our knowledge of ourselves and the world. This new abridgement uses P. H. Nidditch`s authoritative text to make an accessible edition of Locke`s masterpiece.
Автор: DiSalle Название: Understanding Space-Time ISBN: 0521083176 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521083171 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6334 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Presenting the history of space-time physics, from Newton to Einstein, as a philosophical as well as a scientific development, DiSalle shows how philosophical arguments and analyses impacted on these revolutionary changes in the history of physics.
Автор: Turner Stephen P Название: Understanding the Tacit ISBN: 041570944X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415709446 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 21780 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume explores the issue of tacit knowledge, showing how a topic that is central to cognitive science is relevant in important ways to science studies, social theory, and politics.
Автор: Hume, David Название: Enquiry concerning human understanding ISBN: 0199549907 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199549900 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1582 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Enquiry considers the origin and processes of human thought and argues that we should liberate ourselves from the `superstition` of false metaphysics and religion. This edition places the work in its historical and philosophical context.
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.
A nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings.
The transformative potential of genetic and cybernetic technologies to enhance human capabilities is most often either rejected on moral and prudential grounds or hailed as the future salvation of humanity. In this book, Nicholas Agar offers a more nuanced view, making a case for moderate human enhancement -- improvements to attributes and abilities that do not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings. He argues against radical human enhancement, or improvements that greatly exceed current human capabilities.
Agar explores notions of transformative change and motives for human enhancement; distinguishes between the instrumental and intrinsic value of enhancements; argues that too much enhancement undermines human identity; considers the possibility of cognitively enhanced scientists; and argues against radical life extension. Making the case for moderate enhancement, Agar argues that many objections to enhancement are better understood as directed at the degree of enhancement rather than enhancement itself. Moderate human enhancement meets the requirement of truly human enhancement. By radically enhancing human cognitive capabilities, by contrast, we may inadvertently create beings ("post-persons") with moral status higher than that of persons. If we create beings more entitled to benefits and protections against harms than persons, Agar writes, this will be bad news for the unenhanced. Moderate human enhancement offers a more appealing vision of the future and of our relationship to technology.
Автор: Burge Tyler Название: Cognition Through Understanding ISBN: 0199672032 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199672035 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7364 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Cognition Through Understanding presents a selection of Tyler Burge`s essays on cognition, thought, and language. The essays collected here use epistemology as a way of interpreting underlying powers of mind, and focus on four types of cognition that are warranted through understanding: self-knowledge, interlocution, reasoning, and reflection.
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