An exploration of the scientific limits of knowledge that challenges our deep-seated beliefs about our universe, our rationality, and ourselves.
Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what science, mathematics, and reason tell us cannot be revealed. In The Outer Limits of Reason, Noson Yanofsky considers what cannot be predicted, described, or known, and what will never be understood. He discusses the limitations of computers, physics, logic, and our own thought processes.
Yanofsky describes simple tasks that would take computers trillions of centuries to complete and other problems that computers can never solve; perfectly formed English sentences that make no sense; different levels of infinity; the bizarre world of the quantum; the relevance of relativity theory; the causes of chaos theory; math problems that cannot be solved by normal means; and statements that are true but cannot be proven. He explains the limitations of our intuitions about the world -- our ideas about space, time, and motion, and the complex relationship between the knower and the known.
Moving from the concrete to the abstract, from problems of everyday language to straightforward philosophical questions to the formalities of physics and mathematics, Yanofsky demonstrates a myriad of unsolvable problems and paradoxes. Exploring the various limitations of our knowledge, he shows that many of these limitations have a similar pattern and that by investigating these patterns, we can better understand the structure and limitations of reason itself. Yanofsky even attempts to look beyond the borders of reason to see what, if anything, is out there.
Описание: Robert Schofield explores the rational elements of British experimental natural philosophy in the 18th century by tracing the influence of two opposing concepts of the nature of matter and its action--mechanism and materialism. Both concepts rested on the Newtonian interpretation of their proponents, although each developed more or less independent
Автор: Hourdequin Marion, Havlick David G. Название: Restoring Layered Landscapes: History, Ecology, and Culture ISBN: 0190240326 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190240325 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5701.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Restoring Layered Landscapes explores ecological restoration in complex landscapes, where ecosystems intertwine with important sociopolitical meanings.
Автор: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Название: The Crisis of Culture ISBN: 9401014485 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401014489 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 29768.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Jonathan Smith Название: Charles darwin and victorian visual culture ISBN: 0521135796 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521135795 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6019.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this 2006 book, Jonathan Smith explains how Darwin managed to illustrate the unillustratable - his theories of natural selection - by manipulating the visual conventions of natural history. With its many illustrations this study provides new insights into this little known aspect of Darwin`s lasting influence on literature, art and culture.
Автор: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Название: The Crisis of Culture ISBN: 9027706328 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789027706324 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 29768.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: C. Gere Название: Community without Community in Digital Culture ISBN: 1349439320 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349439324 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9781.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Community Without Community in Digital Culture presents the view that our digital culture is determined not by greater connection, but by the separation and gap that is a necessary concomitant of our fundamental technicity.
Автор: Gonzalo Mun?var Название: Beyond Reason ISBN: 0792312724 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792312727 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 41647.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Some philosophers think that Paul Feyerabend is a clown, a great many others think that he is one of the most exciting philosophers of science of this century.
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