1997
Author: Niels Henrik Gregersen
Publisher: Labor et Fides
ISBN: 9782830908954
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Author: Niels Henrik Gregersen
Publisher: Labor et Fides
ISBN: 9782830908954
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486170292
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The brilliant mathematician explores the problems of substance, space, and time; criticizes Einstein's method of interpreting results; and offers an alternative theory of the four-dimensional space-time manifold. 1920 edition.
Author: Alfred Schmidt
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781681473
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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In The Concept of Nature in Marx, Alfred Schmidt examines humanity’s relation to the natural world as understood by the great philosopher-economist Karl Marx, who wrote that human beings are ‘part of Nature yet able to stand over against it; and this partial separation from Nature is itself part of their nature’. In Marx, industry and science are the mediation between historical man and external nature, leading either to reconciliation or mutual annihilation. Schmidt explores this tension between man and nature in Marx and shows how his understanding of nature is reflected in the work of writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch.
Author: Raimonda Modiano
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349071358
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Author: Peter Remien
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108496814
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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Participates in an intellectual history of ecology while prompting a re-evaluation of nature in the early modern period.
Author: Hans Ulrich Vogel
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004187510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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A collective masterpiece that illuminates premodern Chinese ways of thinking about Nature by comparing them with Europe’s, thus also reshaping our understanding of the corresponding Western concepts, and using the frequent partial similarities in the context of overall contrasts to define the differences that have been historically critical.
Author: R. J. Snell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498527558
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Concepts of Nature compare and contrast classical, medieval, and modern conceptions of nature in order to better understand how and why the concept of nature no longer seems to provide a limit or standard for human action. These essays also evaluate whether a rearticulation of pre-modern ideas (or perhaps a reconciliation or reconstitution on modern terms) is desirable and/or possible. Edited by R. J. Snell and Steven F. McGuire, this book will be of interest to intellectual historians, political theorists, theologians, and philosophers.
Author: Yemima Ben-Menahem
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030967751
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
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This book subjects the traditional concept of law of nature to critical examination. There are two kinds of reasons that invite this reexamination, one deriving from philosophical concerns over the traditional concept, the other motivated by theoretical and practical changes in science. One of the philosophical worries is that the idiom of law of nature, especially when combined with the notion of laws 'governing' individual events and processes, is no longer as intelligible as it used to be in the theistic context in which the formulation of laws became central to science. The traditional concept is also challenged in various ways by contemporary scientific theories such as quantum mechanics, chaos theory and the general theory of relativity. It is no longer clear that there are any universal laws, laws do not always guarantee predictability, and the border between physical and mathematical considerations is constantly shifting. The most difficult challenge, perhaps, is to come up with a scientific explanation of the origin of laws. Wrestling with these intriguing problems, the papers in this volume broaden both our understanding of the natural order and our desiderata of scientific explanation.
Author: Gerard Naddaf
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791483673
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Explores the origin and evolution of the Greek concept of nature up until the time of Plato.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521067874
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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This book, a development of his Tarner Lectures given in 1919, is one of Alfred North Whitehead's most important contributions to natural philosophy. His first concern is with the fundamental problems of substance, space, and time; and the most interesting part of his discussion is, perhaps, his criticism of Einstein's method of interpreting results, and the alternative development of his own well-known theory of the four-dimensional 'Space-Time manifold'. Although this book was first published over a generation ago, and the characteristic approach of philosophers to the problems of nature has changed considerably in the intervening period, The Concept of Nature has never ceased to deserve their careful attention. When the book first appeared, A. E. Taylor, writing in Mind, said 'The Concept of Nature is a great contribution to Naturphilosophie, far the finest contribution, in my own judgement, yet made by any one man'; J. E. McTaggart in The Cambridge Review called it 'one of the most valuable books on the relation of philosophy and science which has appeared for many years', adding 'I am sure the study of this book will benefit metaphysicians. I venture to believe that it will benefit men of science.'
