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Springer Principles of Cognition Language and Action Essays on the Foundations of a Science of Psychology
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Springer Principles of Cognition Language and Action Essays on the Foundations of a Science of Psychology
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Springer Abduction and Induction
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Springer The Origins of Life
Book SynopsisInaugural Essay.- The Origins of Life: The Existential Senses of Sharing-in-Life Vital, Societal, Creative a Radically Novel Platform.- Section I Transitions of Sense: From the Vital Towards the Existential/Societal Sharing-in-Life.- Logos and Ethos in the Thought of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka: The Aspect ofBeginning.- In Defense of a Moth. The Search for Foundations of Environmental Ethics.- Life, Person, Responsibility.- Values Within Relations.- Creativity and Everyday Life Ricoeur's Aesthetics.- Section II The Surging of The Intentional platform of Life.- The Human Arts and the Natural Laws of Bios: Return to Consciousness.- The Phenomenon of Loneliness and the Meta-Theory of Consciousness.- Jung's Concept of Individuation and the Problem of Alienation.- Human Dignity asRationality The Development of a Conception.- On Emotion and Self-Determination in Max Scheler and Antoni K?pi?ski.- The Paradoxical Transformation of Existence: On Kierkegaard's Concept of Individuation.- MultipleTable of ContentsInaugural Lecture. The Origins of Life: The Existential Senses of Sharing-in-Life - Vital, Societal, Creative a Radically Novel Platform. Section I: Transitions of Sense: From the Vital Towards the Existential/Societal Sharing in Life. Atom and Individual; H. Matthai. Logos and Ethos in the Thought of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (the Aspect of `Beginning'); M.P. Migón. Perception and Perceptibility of Living Beings. An Attempt to connect Phenomenology and Ethics; J.E. Hafner. Life, Person, Responsibility; A.A. Bello. Values within Relations; L. Pyra. Creativity and Everyday Life - Ricoeur's Aesthetics; R.D. Sweeny. Section II: The Surging of the Intentional Platform of Life. The Human Arts and the Natural Laws of Bios: Return to Consciousness; P. Mróz. The Phenomenon of Loneliness and the Meta-Theory of Consciousness; V. Borodulin, A. Vasliev. Jung's Concept of Individuation and the Problem of Alienation; M. Zowislo. `Human Dignity' as `Rationality' - The Development of a Conception; J.J. Venter. On Emotion and Self-Determination in Max Scheler and Antoni Kepinski; M. Pyka. The Paradoxical Transformation of Existence: on Kierkegaard's Concept of Individuation; A.C. Canan. Multiple Persons in Kierkegaard's Pseudonymous Authorship; V. Vevere. Section III: The Emergence of the Creative Sphere of Sharing in Life. Human Existence as a Creative Process (A Commentary on Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's Anthropological Reflection); M.A. Cecilia. The Methodologies of Life, Self-Individualization and Creativity in the Educational Process; R.A. Kurenkova, et al. Stimuli to Invention: New Technologies, New Audiences, New Images; D.G. Scillia. Stefan Zweig and his Literary Biographies; C.Berthold. The Artistic Event in the Space of Life as an Effect of the Interaction of Instincts, Feelings, Images and Spiritual; J. Slosarska. Reflections on the Everlasting and the Transient or the Road to the `Freed Field of Light'; R. Kulis. Death and Ontology; E. Szumakowicz. Sein als `Position' und Ereignis &endash; Kants These über das Sein und Heidegger; T. Shikaya. Section IV: The Spirit of Creativity Soaring Towards the Sense of Beauty and Transcendence. Chinese Gardens: The Relation of Man to Nature in Seventeenth-Century French Culture; M. Kronegger. Life: The True, The Good, and The Beautiful. A Comparative Study of Greek and Pre-Qin Philosophies; L. Qingping. Towards an Aesthetics of Nature: Merleau-Ponty's Embodied Ontology; M. Van den Bossche. Ontology and Poetry (The Principles of Being of Creation); I.S. Fiut. Heaven's Angels with Grinding Organs: John Ruskin's Idea of Life; E. Supińska-Polit. Phenomenology and the Cubist Space; Z. Majewska. Du mortel à l'impossible éternel: La transcendence de la mort; J. Sivak. Section V: Time, World, and Hermeneutics. The Phenomenon of the Future as it was Constituted by Kierkegaard, Husserl and Heidegger; C. Bjurvill. Time as Viewed by Husserl and Heidegger; A. Pawliszyn. Postmodernism is Existential Phenomenology; J.I. Unah. Postmodernism as a Completion of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics; P. Gulda. The Human Being in the Liberal-Democratic Epoch; T. Buksiński. Six Para-Philosophical Exercises in Latvian Euro(onto)poiesis; A. Zunde. Appendix. Index of names.
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Springer The Reality of the Unobservable
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Springer Instrumental Traditions and Theories of Light The Uses of Instruments in the Optical Revolution 9 Science and Philosophy
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Springer A Boole Anthology Recent and Classical Studies in the Logic of George Boole 291 Synthese Library
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Springer The Social Origins of Modern Science
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Springer Probability Theory Philosophy Recent History and Relations to Science 297 Synthese Library
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Springer Handbook of the History of General Topology v 3 History of Topology
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Springer Holism in Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Physics 298 Synthese Library
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Springer Life the Play of Life on the Stage of the World in Fine Arts StagePlay and Literature
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Springer Structures in Science Heuristic Patterns Based on Cognitive Structures An Advanced Textbook in NeoClassical Philosophy of Science 301 Synthese Library
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Springer Between Leibniz Newton and Kant
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Donna Haraway Live Theory Live Theory S
Book SynopsisA key resource for anyone studying this pioneering thinker within the context of sociology, cultural studies, feminism and science studies.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Science as Stories of Nature: The Case of Primatology 3. A Queer Family of Companion Species: From Cyborgs to Dogs and Beyond 4. Bodies, Knowledge, Politics, Ethics and Truth: Figuring a Feminist Technoscience 5. Conversations with Donna Haraway 6. Why Read Haraway? Recommendations
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Transductions Bodies And Machines At Speed Continuum Collection Series
Book SynopsisPart of the "Technologies: Studies in Culture and Theory" series. Through a critical analysis of the widely accepted notion that technology speeds everything up, this book argues that there are only ever differences in speed. The question for us is how can such differences be represented?Trade Review"Mackenzie seeks to pinpoint the relationship between conceptions of technology and technology as a physical and temporal process. Although Mackenzie's philosophical exploration of transductions of the living and nonliving addresses broad subject matter, the underlying concepts are analyzed with precision." Summing Up: Recommended. -- CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Radical contingency and the materializations of technology; 2. From stone to radiation: the depth and speed of technical embodiments; 3. The technicity of time: 1.00 oscillations/sec to 9,192,631,770 Hz; 4. Infrastructure and individuation: speed and delay in Stelarc's Ping Body'; 5. Losing time at the PlayStation: realtime and the 'whatever' body; 6. Life, collectives and the pre-vital technicity of biotechnology Conclusion.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Kuhns The Structure of Scientific Revolutions A Readers Guide Readers Guides
Book SynopsisThomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" is arguably one of the influential books of the twentieth century and a key text in the philosophy and history of science. This guide offers an account of this key philosophical work. It provides a review of the key themes and a commentary that enables readers to navigate the text.Trade Review'This richly succinct guide to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, T.S. Kuhn's hugely influential book, combines a lucid and subtle presentation of its main themes with an incisive and probing assessment of its reception and significance.' Vasso Kindi, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens, Greece'Preston's book admirably illuminates the most philosophically compelling and enduring elements of Kuhn's thought without diluting their complexity or sidestepping their perplexing consequences.' Matthew Lund, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Rowan University, USATable of Contents1. Context; 2. Overview of Themes; 3. Reading the Text; 4. Reception and Influence; 5. Notes for Further Reading.
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Vanderbilt University Press Peirces Scientific Metaphysics
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LINDISFARNE PR The Wholeness of Nature Goethes Way Toward a Science of Conscious Participation in Nature Renewal in Science
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Discovery Institute Are We Spiritual Machines Ray Kurzweil vs the Critics of Strong AI
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Nancy Evans Bush Reckoning Discoveries after a Traumatic NearDeath Experience
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Institute of Vaishnava Studies Bhaktivedanta Institute Monograph Series
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Cambridge University Press Definitions and Mathematical Knowledge
Book SynopsisThis Element discusses the philosophical roles of definitions in the attainment of mathematical knowledge. It first focuses on the role of definitions in foundational programs, and then examines their major varieties, both as regards their origins, their potential epistemic roles, and their formal constraints. It examines explicit definitions, implicit definitions, and implicit definitions of primitive terms, these latter being further divided into axiomatic and abstractive. After discussing elucidations and explications, various ways in which definitions can yield mathematical knowledge are surveyed.
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Saint Philip Street Press Hanging on to the Edges Essays on Science Society and the Academic Life
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Legare Street Press The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in Which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols Are Used Instead of Letters ..
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Independently Published The Equations and Solutions to Unsolved Problems Expanded Edition Including Extensive Solutions to MillenniumPrize Type Problems
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Rethinking Psychology
Book SynopsisBrian Hughes is Professor of Psychology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has held visiting academic appointments at the Universities of Missouri, Leiden, and Birmingham, and at King's College London. His research focuses on psychological stress and its impact on health, and on psychosocial moderators of stress processes. He also writes widely on the psychology of empiricism and of empirically disputable claims, especially as they pertain to science, health, and medicine. He holds Ph.D. and B.A. degrees from the National University of Ireland, and an Ed.M. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo.Trade Review'Brian Hughes has written an important and engaging book exploring the relationships between science, pseudoscience, and psychology. He argues persuasively that psychology itself can properly be considered to be a true science but one that is marred within by pockets of pseudoscience. This book should be read by anyone with a serious interest in the subject.' - Professor Christopher French, Goldsmiths, University of London 'Hughes provides a timely and comprehensive reminder of the critical role of science in both academic and professional applications of psychology. It covers an impressive breadth of topics with incisive clarity and illustrates clearly the integral role of scientific approaches to understanding psychological phenomena.' - Dr David Hevey, Trinity College DublinTable of ContentsPART I: PSYCHOLOGY AND PSEUDOSCIENCE IN THEORY.- 1. What is Science and Why is it Useful?.- 2. What is Pseudoscience and Why is it Popular?.- 3. The Scientific Nature of Psychology.- 4. The Psychology of Evidentiary Reasoning.- PART II: PSYCHOLOGY AND PSEUDOSCIENCE IN PRACTICE.- 5. Examples from the Fringes: From Healing the Mind to Reading the Body.- 6. Examples from the Mainstream: Biological Reductionism as Worldview.- 7. Examples from the Mainstream: What Some People Say about What They Think They Think.- PART III: PSYCHOLOGY AND PSEUDOSCIENCE IN CONTEXT.- 8. Biases and Subjectivism in Psychology.- 9. Religion, Optimism and their Place in Psychology.- 10. Psychologists at the Threshold: Why Should We Care?.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Your Digital Afterlives Computational Theories of Life After Death Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion
Book SynopsisDigitalism is a philosophical strategy that uses new computational ways of thinking to develop naturalistic but meaningful ways of thinking about bodies, souls, universes, gods, and life after death. Your Digital Afterlives examines four recently developed and digitally inspired theories of life after death.Table of ContentsPreface Series Editors' Preface 1. Ghosts 2. Persistence 3. Anatomy 4. Uploading 5. Promotion 6. Digital Gods 7. Revision 8. Superhuman Bodies 9. Infinite Bodies 10. Nature References Index
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Griffin Publishing Undeniable
Book SynopsisIn Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation, Bill Nye explains why race does not really exist; evaluates the true promise and peril of genetically modified food; reveals how new species are born, in a dog kennel and in a London subway; takes a stroll through 4.5 billion years of time; and explores the new search for alien life.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Getting Science Wrong
Book SynopsisWhen Galileo dropped cannon-balls from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, he did more than overturn centuries of scientific orthodoxy. At a stroke, he established a new conception of the scientific method based upon careful experimentation and rigorous observation and also laid the groundwork for an ongoing conflict between the critical open-mindedness of science and the recalcitrant dogmatism of religion that would continue to the modern day.The problem is that Galileo never performed his most celebrated experiment in Pisa. In fact, he rarely conducted any experiments at all. The Church publicly celebrated his work, and Galileo enjoyed patronage from the great and the powerful; his ecclesiastical difficulties only began when disgruntled colleagues launched a campaign to discredit their academic rival. But what does this tell us about modern science if its own foundation myth turns out to be nothing more than political propaganda?Getting Science Wrong discTrade Review[So] beautifully, passionately written, in such an engaging, subjective manner, that it deserves a secure place on the library shelf, where it’s sure to influence, inspire, even transform the outlier student. Where else would you find a philosophy of science text that dared quote at length from Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1938 novel Nausea? Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. * CHOICE *Paul Dicken takes us on a romp through the history and philosophy of science. This is a fun and accessible resource for anyone who wants to think more carefully about how science works. -- Kevin Elliott, Associate Professor, Michigan State University, USAIt is very readable ... [and] the book’s message is an important one and should serve as a great springboard for further discussion and exploration of the literature, or perhaps even as an introductory read to coursework. * The Inquisitive Biologist *Table of ContentsList of figures Introduction 1. Learning from our mistakes 2. A matter of trial and error 3. Images of science 4. 88.6 percent of all statistics are all made up 5. Living in different worlds 6. The bankruptcy of science 7. Deus ex machina Epilogue Dramatis Personae Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Science
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers together leading philosophers of science and cognitive scientists from around the world to provide one of the first book-length studies of this important and emerging field. Specific topics considered include learning and the nature of scientific knowledge, the cognitive consequences of exposure to explanations, climate change, and mechanistic reasoning and abstraction. Chapters explore how experimental methods can be applied to questions about the nature of science and show how to fruitfully theorize about the nature and role of science with well-grounded empirical research. Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Science presents a new direction in the philosophical exploration of science and paves a path for those who might seek to pursue research in experimental philosophy of science.Trade ReviewThe papers included in this ground-breaking collection, many authored by world class psychologists and philosophers, make a persuasive case that experimental methods can contribute to traditional debates in the philosophy of science as well as opening new domains of inquiry at the cutting edge of the field. * Stephen Stich, Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Philosophy & Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, USA *Though science is often seen as an enterprise that goes against our natural way of thinking, it still takes its root in everyday cognition and concepts. This volume is one of the few to provide original and valuable insights in the cognitive underpinnings of scientific enterprise. * Florian Cova, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva, Switzerland *Table of Contents1. Introduction, Richard Samuels & Daniel A. Wilkenfeld Part I: Explanation and Understanding 2. Scientific Understanding and the Human Drive to Explain, Elizabeth Kon & Tania Lombrozo 3. The Challenges and Benefits of Mechanistic Explanation in Folk Scientific Understanding, Frank Keil Part II: Theories and Theory Change 4. Information That Boosts Normative Global Warming Acceptance Without Polarization: Toward J. S. Mill’s Political Ethology of National Character, Michael Ranney, Matthew Shonman, Kyle Fricke, Lee Nevo Lamprey, & Paras Kumar 5. Science in Vivo: Addressing Philosophical Questions About Science Through the Psychology of Scientific Thought, Andrew Shtulman 6. Intuitive Epistemology: Children’s Theory of Evidence, Mark Fedyk, Tamar Kushnir, and Fei Xu Part III: Special Sciences 7. Applying Experimental Philosophy to Investigate Economic Concepts: Choice, Preference, and Nudge, Michiru Nagatsu 8. Scientists’ Concepts of Innateness: Evolution or Attraction?, Edouard Machery, Paul Griffiths, Stefan Linquist, & Karola Stotz Part IV: General Considerations 9. Causal Judgment: What Can Philosophy Learn from Experiment? What Can It Contribute to Experiment?, James Woodward Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) An Epistemology of Noise
Book SynopsisCecile Malaspina is a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, UK. She is the translator of G. Simondon's On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects, (forthcoming), and, together with Michael Zimmermann, of E. Morin's Methode II (forthcoming).Trade ReviewThis is one of the freshest intellectual works I have read in recent years. If you did not previously recognize the philosophical significance of Claude Shannon, Warren Weaver, and Norbert Wiener, you will after reading this book. Shannon’s paradoxical claim that information and noise are both forms of entropy is revived by Malaspina and developed with ideas drawn from Gilbert Simondon and Nicholas of Cusa. The result is a challenging and compelling experience for the reader, who will want to study this book multiple times. -- Graham Harman, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, USAThe chapters that form this book are like cuts in a diamond, the precision of which is a thing of beauty. Bringing presuppositions to the fore, little is taken for granted when approaching noise and how to understand it. This is a philosophy of noise that is ultimately freeing and demands to be shared. -- Yve Lomax, Senior Research Tutor in Photography and Fine Art, Royal College of Art, UKThe received view that we now live in information societies obscures a more unsettling premise. For noise is not just intrinsic to information: as Cecile Malaspina contends, noise is rather the very basis of information. Information societies are then noise societies. This startling insight requires the resetting—or rather the upsetting— of basic categories across the board: for communication, sound, physics, biology, social organisation and, as Malaspina argues, of categorization itself. Noise is therefore primary and significant, yet its theorization is a demanding and necessarily transdisciplinary task. Epistemology of Noise attends to that task with rigour and precision. As such, Malaspina has written an establishing text for a new uncontainable field of noise studies. -- Suhail Malik, Reader in Critical Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UKThis important study offers a rewarding exploration of its subject, not the least by revealing the deeper philosophical underpinnings of the mathematical and scientific theories of information and noise. The book rightly places them in complex relationships to each other, and against an uncritical opposition between them that has prevented us from understanding the nature of these relationships, and of noise and information themselves, for so long. -- Arkady Plotnitsky, Distinguished Professor of English and Director of Theory and Cultural Studies, Purdue University, USATable of ContentsForeword by Ray Brassier Acknowledgements Note on Text List of Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 Concepts: Information Entropy, Negentropy, Noise I How to Draw the Line between Information and Noise II Entropy as ‘Freedom of Choice’ III Information Entropy and Physical Entropy IV The Idea of ‘Potential Information’ V Physical Concepts of Information and Informational Concepts of Physics VI Information as Process Rather Than Content VII To Think about Information as a Process of Individuation VIII Redundancy and Necessity IX Logic and Freedom of Choice X Noise as Spurious Uncertainty XI Negentropy XII Complexity on the Basis of Noise XIII The Astigmatism of Intuition XIV The Path of Despair Part 2 Empirical Noise I On the Transduction of the Concept of Noise II Accidental Information, Predictable Noise III Ready-Made Information IV Cosmic Background Radiation V Noise in the Gap between Narratives VI Noise in Finance VII Statistics: The Discipline of the Prince VIII The Man without Qualities IX Noise Abatement: The Dawn of Noise X Noise Pollution XI Toxic, Viral, Parasitic Part 3 The ‘Mental State of Noise’ I The Crossroads: Mathematical, Technical, Empirical and Subjective Noise II Internal Chaos, Terror and Confusion III The Vicious Whir of Sensations IV Keat’s Negative Capability V Closure to Noise and the Paradox of the Declining Life VI The Catastophic Reaction to Noise VII Anxiety VIII Order IX Control X The Helmsman Metaphor: Kybernetes XI The Helmsman in Plato’s Alcibiades Dialogue Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Atomism in Philosophy
Book SynopsisUgo Zilioli is Leverhulme Researcher at the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford and Associate Member of Lady Margaret Hall, UK. He is author of Protagoras and the Challenge of Relativism: Plato's Subtlest Enemy (2007; 2nd edition 2016), The Cyrenaics (2014) and editor of From the Socratics to the Socratic Schools: Classical Ethics, Metaphysics and Epistemology (2015).Trade ReviewThis landmark collection treats the complex problem of atomism with the sophistication it deserves, providing ample resources for studying its historical and systematic aspects. I am particularly glad to see that pertinent mereological discussions from the Indian and Islamic traditions are covered as well. * Jan Westerhoff, Professor of Buddhist Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK *An indispensable collection for all interested in metaphysics. The essays are remarkably lucid, providing any interested reader with deft summaries and clear signposts. This comprehensive collection works as compelling history of how a fundamental idea in classical Greek philosophy travelled through epochs and across disciplines, finding reverberations in classical Asian philosophy, while inspiring insight to problems and continuing to cause questions and provoke debate in this global millennium. * Katherine O'Donnell, Associate Professor of History of Ideas, University College Dublin, Ireland *This inspiring collection begins with a series of important and original studies of atomism as a philosophical and scientific theory in Latin and Greek antiquity. But it goes on to offer an intellectual journey through a web of historical parallels to the ancient Western theories, and receptions and reinventions of atomism through to contemporary metaphysics. It is rare for such a wide-ranging collection to cohere so well, or to offer so much to seduce the reader into broadening the horizons of their interest in the subject. * George Boys-Stones, Professor of Classics and Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada *This is an original and unprecedented collection. It is not just a history of atomism, from antiquity to the present day, but also – and perhaps more significantly – an exploration of what it means to be an atomist in different philosophical areas and so of what atomism ultimately is. * Gabriele Galluzzo, Senior Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy, University of Exeter, UK *Table of ContentsList of Contributors Preface & Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Transliterations General Introduction, Ugo Zilioli PART I. ATOMISM IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY 1. Early Ancient Atomism, Similarities and Differences, Andrew Gregory 2. The Reception of Atomism in Ancient Medical Literature: From Hippocrates to Galen, Vincenzo Damiani 3. Why Aren’t Atoms Coloured?, David Sedley 4. Atoms and Minimal “Parts”: The Originality of Epicurean Atomism, Francesco Verde 5. Atoms and Universals in Epicurus, Attila Nemeth 6. Atoms, Complexes and Simples in the Theaetetus, Sophie-Grace Chappell 7. Atomism in Plato’s Timaeus, Luca Pitteloud PART II. ATOMISM IN NON-WESTERN, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY 8. Atoms and Orientation: Vasubandhu’s Solution To The Problem Of Contact, Amber Carpenter and Ngaserin Ng Jing Ya 9. Aggregates versus Wholes: An Unresolved Debate between the Ny¯aya-Vai´ses.ika and Buddhist Schools in Ancient Indian Atomism, Sahotra Sarkar 10. Atomism and Islamic Thought, Francesco Omar Zamboni 11. Atoms and Time I, Charles Doyle 12. Atoms and Music in Late Medieval Philosophy, Philippa Ovenden 13. Atomism and the Cambridge Platonists, Adrian Mihai 14. Atomism and Society in William Petty, Akos Sivado 15. Atoms, Colours, and God in Leibniz, Alberto Artosi PART III. ATOMISM IN CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT Section I: Philosophy 16. Logical Atomism and Wittgenstein, Annalisa Coliva 17. Atomism and Semantics in the Philosophy of Jerrold Katz, Keith Begley 18. Atoms and Knowledge, Nick Treanor 19. Atoms and Time II, Mauro Dorato 20. Atomism and Marxism in Louis Althusser, Panagiotis Sotiris 21. Atomism and Liberalism, Philip Krinks Section II: Metaphysics 22. Atoms as Universals, Matthew Tugby 23. Atoms and Extended Simples, Travis Dumsday 24. Power Gunk, or Unlimitedly Divided Powers, Anna Marmodoro and Andrea Roselli 25. Atoms and Tropes, Peter Simons Section III: The Sciences: Physics and Chemistry 26. Atoms and Physics-Based Structuralism, Matteo Morganti 27. Atoms and Chemistry I: Not a Success Story, Paul Needham 28. Atoms and Chemistry II, Robin Hendry Index
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Random House USA Inc The Quantum and the Lotus
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Springer The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century Patterns of Change in Early Modern Natural Philosophy Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 19
Book SynopsisIt was the desire to probe the underlying causes of the shift from the early modern ‘nature-knowledge’ to modern science that was one of the stimuli for the ‘Origins of Modernity: Early Modern Thought 1543–1789’ conference held in Sydney in July 2002.Trade ReviewAus den Rezensionen: "… Es gehört nun zur hohen Qualität dieses Bandes, dass alle Beiträge dem zugrundeliegenden methodischen Ansatz und der thematischen Intention gerecht werden … Der Band wird seinem Anspruch, die ‘patterns of change in Early Modern Natural Philosophy‘ zu beschreiben und zu analysieren, in hohem Maße gerecht. Die Beiträge sind ausgesprochen konstruktiv und nehmen erfreulicherweise vielfach Bezug aufeinander, so dass eine für einen Sammelband selten anzutreffende Kohärenz entsteht …" (http://www.sehepunkte.de)Table of ContentsThe Onset of the Scientific Revolution.- ‘Waterworld’: Descartes’ Vortical Celestial Mechanics.- Circular Argument.- From Mechanics to Mechanism.- The Autonomy of Natural Philosophy.- Physico-Theology and the Mixed Sciences.- The Saturn Problem.- Experimental Versus Speculative Natural Philosophy.
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