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: P. Humphreys Название: Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher ISBN: 0792325524 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792325529 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 49613.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Contains 4 volumes with contributions ranging over probability and statistics, mathematical and experimental psychology, the foundations of physics, education theory, the philosophy of language, measurement theory, and the philosophy of science. This work is useful for philosophers of language, and of mathematical social sciences, and linguists.
Автор: P. Humphreys Название: Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher ISBN: 0792325532 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792325536 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 38433.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Contains 4 volumes with contributions ranging over probability and statistics, mathematical and experimental psychology, the foundations of physics, education theory, the philosophy of language, measurement theory, and the philosophy of science. This work is useful for philosophers of language, and of mathematical social sciences, and linguists.
Название: Harvard lectures of alfred north whitehead, 1924-1925 ISBN: 1474401848 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474401845 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 29304.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Alfred North Whitehead presented a regular course of 85 lectures which extended from September of 1924 to May 1925. These represent the first ever philosophy lectures he gave and capture him working out the philosophical implications of the remarkable turns that physics had taken in his lifetime.
Описание: Argues that events, not substances, are the fundamental units of reality
What kinds of things are events? Battles, explosions, accidents, crashes, rock concerts would be typical examples of events and these would be reinforced in the way we speak about the world. Philosophers following Aristotle have claimed that events are dependent on substances such as physical objects and persons. But with the advances of modern physics, some philosophers and physicists have argued that events are the basic entities of reality and what we perceive as physical bodies are just very long events spread out in space-time. In other words, everything turns out to be events. This view, no doubt, radically revises our ordinary common sense view of reality, but as our event theorists argue, common sense is out of touch with advancing science.
Leemon B. McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a sounder basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than traditional substance metaphysics. He investigates the influence of Maxwell's electromagnetic field, Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics on the development of the ontology of events and compares Whitehead's theory to his contemporaries, C. D. Broad and Bertrand Russell, as well as W. V. Quine. In this way, McHenry defends the naturalised and speculative approach to metaphysics as opposed to analytical and linguistic methods that arose in the 20th century. In this context, Whitehead's process metaphysics, long considered incomprehensible by mainstream philosophers, becomes intelligible.
Read an interview with Leemon McHenry on Crosscurrents series editor Christopher Watkin's blog
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Автор: Whitehead, Alfred North Название: Enquiry concerning the principles of natural knowledge ISBN: 0342439995 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780342439997 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 6104.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: This volume finally recreates the first philosophy lectures given by Alfred North Whitehead by transcribing notes and sketches by W. P. Bell, W. E. Hocking and Louise Heath taken at the time.
Автор: Robert S. Cohen; Raymond J. Seeger Название: Ernst Mach: Physicist and Philosopher ISBN: 9027700168 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789027700162 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 23757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C., 27 December 1966, a symposium was held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Ernst Mach, the physicist who was vitally concerned about philosophical foundations.
Автор: D. Baird; R.I. Hughes; A. Nordmann Название: Heinrich Hertz: Classical Physicist, Modern Philosopher ISBN: 079234653X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792346531 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27251.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection of essays on Heinrich Hertz brings together an international group of physicists, philosophers, and historians. It includes investigations of Hertz`s background, his theoretical and experimental contributions, his philosophy of science, and his influence in the 20th century.
Автор: P. Humphreys Название: Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher ISBN: 0792328620 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792328629 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 41647.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Patrick Suppes is a philosopher and scientist whose contributions range over probability and statistics, mathematical and experimental psychology. This work features papers that were commissioned with the mandate of advancing research in their respective fields rather than retrospectively surveying the contributions that Suppes himself has made.
Автор: Mar?a de Paz; Robert DiSalle Название: Poincar?, Philosopher of Science ISBN: 9402400028 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789402400021 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18866.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Preface.- Introduction; Robert DiSalle and Marнa de Paz.- Part I Poincarй's Philosophy of Science.- 1 Portrait of Henri Poincarй as a young philosopher: the formative years (1860-1873); Laurent Rollet.- 2 The Invention of Convention; Janet Folina.- 3 The third way epistemology: A re-characterization of Poincarй's conventionalism; Marнa de Paz.- 4 Poincarй, Indifferent Hypotheses and Metaphysics; Antonio Videira.- Part II Poincarй on the Foundations of Mathematics.- 5 Poincarй in Gцttingen; Reinhard Kahle.- 6 Poincarй on the Principles of the Calculus; Augusto J. Franco de Oliveira.- 7 Does the French Connection (Poincarй, Lautman) provide some insights regarding the thesis that meta-mathematics is an exception to the slogan that mathematics concerns structures?; Gerhard Heinzmann.- Part III Poincarй on the Foundations of Physics.- 8 Henri Poincarй The status of mechanical explanations and the foundations of statistical mechanics; Joгo Prнncipe.- 9 Poincarй A scientist inspired by his philosophy; Isabella Serra.- 10 Poincarй on the construction of space-time; Robert DiSalle.- Contributors.- Index.
Автор: Mar?a de Paz; Robert DiSalle Название: Poincar?, Philosopher of Science ISBN: 9401787794 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401787796 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18866.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Poincare, Philosopher of Science
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