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.
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Автор: Robinson Название: Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson ISBN: 0230517722 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230517721 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11878.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume explores the relations between the work of Gilles Deleuze, Alfred North Whitehead and Henri Bergson. It examines the articulation between their concepts, methods and modes of philosophy. Themes are examined in the context of the contrasts, differences and conjunctions - the rhizomatic connections - between their shared concepts.
Автор: M. Capek Название: Bergson and Modern Physics ISBN: 9027701865 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789027701862 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 31305.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: His particular gift for many of his readers and students lies in the great period from the mid-nineteenth century through the foundations of the physics and philosophy of the twentieth, and within this spectacular time, Profes- sor Capek has become a principal expositor and sympathetic critic of the philosophy of Henri Bergson.
Автор: W. Riemer; Peter Mittelstaedt Название: Philosophical Problems of Modern Physics ISBN: 9027705062 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789027705068 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Professor Peter Mittelstaedt is a physicist whose primary concern is the foundations of current physical theories. We are at liberty to choose a framework for thought - a logic and a method- ology - prior to experience (in the classic sense, to think a priori);
Автор: Peter Mittelstaedt Название: Rational Reconstructions of Modern Physics ISBN: 940079570X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400795709 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 14365.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book shows that, based on Newton`s classical physics and by rational reconstruction, the theory of Special Relativity as well as Quantum Mechanics can be obtained by partly eliminating or attenuating the metaphysical hypotheses, without additional hypotheses.
Автор: Crocker Stephen Название: Bergson and the Metaphysics of Media ISBN: 113732449X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137324498 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10480.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: What is a medium? Why is there always a middle? Can media produce `immediacy`? Henri Bergson recognized mediation as the central philosophical problem of modernity. This book traces his influence on the `media philosophies` of Gilles Deleuze, Marshall McLuhan, Walter Benjamin and Michel Serres.
Автор: Peter Mittelstaedt Название: Rational Reconstructions of Modern Physics ISBN: 9400755929 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400755925 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15672.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book shows that, based on Newton`s classical physics and by rational reconstruction, the theory of Special Relativity as well as Quantum Mechanics can be obtained by partly eliminating or attenuating the metaphysical hypotheses, without additional hypotheses.
Автор: M. Strauss Название: Modern Physics and its Philosophy ISBN: 9401028958 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401028950 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12157.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In selecting the papers for this volume I have excluded all physics papers proper. Since many of the papers were occasioned by Symposia or similar gatherings their chronological order is rather accidental. Two of the older papers (Chapters VI and VIII) have been revised to bring them more into line with present terminology.
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