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: Carolyn R. Fawcett; Lynn Visson; Boris G. Kuznetso Название: Reason and Being ISBN: 9401085390 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401085397 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 26973.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Boris Kuznetsov was a scientist among humanists, a philosopher among scientists, a historian for those who look to the future, an optimist in an age of sadness. Kuznetsov was also, in his intelligent and thoughtful way, a Marxist scholar and a practical engineer, a patriotic Russian Jew of the first sixty years of the Soviet Union.
Автор: D. Shapere Название: Reason and the Search for Knowledge ISBN: 9027716412 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789027716415 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 38433.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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.
Автор: Gonzalo Mun?var Название: Beyond Reason ISBN: 9401054061 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401054065 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27950.00 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.
Автор: N. Rescher Название: Satisfying Reason ISBN: 0792331486 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792331483 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Satisfying Reason is an explanation of the presuppositions and methods of rational enquiry, an original exercise in metaknowledge, developing a systematic body of knowledge about the scope and limits of knowledge itself.
Автор: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Название: Reason, Life, Culture ISBN: 0792319028 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792319023 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27944.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Rationality in its various expressions and innumerable applications sustains understanding and our sense of reality. This title reveals the workings of the logos at the root of beingness and all rationality, whereby we gaze upon the prospect of a New Enlightenment.
Автор: L. Magnani Название: Abduction, Reason and Science ISBN: 1461346371 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781461346371 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book ties together the concerns of philosophers of science and AI researchers, showing for example the connections between scientific thinking and medical expert systems.
Автор: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Название: The Human Being in Action ISBN: 940099835X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400998353 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 22354.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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