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Construction Site for Possible Worlds

Author : Amanda Beech
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1913029662
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Construction Site for Possible Worlds written by Amanda Beech and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives from philosophy, aesthetics, and art on how to envisage the construction site of possible worlds. Given the highly coercive and heavily surveilled dynamics of the present moment, when the tremendous pressures exerted by capital on contemporary life produces an aggressively normative “official reality,” the question of the construction of other possible worlds is crucial and perhaps more urgent than ever. This collection brings together different perspectives from the fields of philosophy, aesthetics, and art to discuss the mechanisms through which possible worlds are thought, constructed, and instantiated, forcefully seeking to overcome the contemporary moment's deficit of conceptualizing alternate realities—its apparent fear of imagining possible new and compelling futures—to begin the arduous task of producing the political dynamics necessary for actual construction. Implicit in this dynamic between the imaginary and the possible is the question of how thinking intertwines with both rationality and the inherited contingencies and structures of the world. With no ascertainable ground on which to build, with no confidence in any given that could guarantee our labors, how do we even envisage the construction site(s) of possible worlds, and with what kind of diagrams, tools, and languages can we bring them into being?

Sonic Possible Worlds

Author : Salomé Voegelin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623566959
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Sonic Possible Worlds written by Salomé Voegelin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of game design, Salomé Voegelin adapts and develops “possible world theory” in relation to sound. David K Lewis' Possible World is juxtaposed with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's life-world, to produce a meeting of the semantic and the phenomenological at the place of listening. The central tenet of Sonic Possible Worlds is that at present traditional musical compositions and contemporary sonic outputs are approached and investigated through separate and distinct critical languages and histories. As a consequence, no continuous and comparative study of the field is possible. In Sonic Possible Worlds, Voegelin proposes a new analytical framework that can access and investigate works across genres and times, enabling a comparative engagement where composers such as Henry Purcell and Nadia Boulanger encounter sound art works by Shilpa Gupta and Christina Kubisch and where the soundscape compositions of Chris Watson and Francisco López resound in the visual worlds of Louise Bourgeois.

Sonic Possible Worlds, Revised Edition

Author : Salomé Voegelin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501367633
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Sonic Possible Worlds, Revised Edition written by Salomé Voegelin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of games design, Salomé Voegelin expands 'possible world theory' to think the worlding of sound in music, in art and in the everyday. The modal logic of possible worlds, articulated principally via David K. Lewis and developed through Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological life-worlds, creates a view on the invisible slices of the world and reflects on how to make them count, politically and aesthetically. How to make them thinkable and accessible as the possibility of the everyday and of art: to reach a new materialist understanding from the invisible and to develop an ear for the as yet inaudible. This revised edition continues Voegelin's exploration of the sonic possibility of the world into the sonic possibility and impossibility of the body. Listening to work by Áine O'Dwyer, Hannah Silva and Jocy de Oliveira, it considers sonic possible worlds' radical power to rethink normative constructions and to fabulate a different body from its sound: Hearing the Continuum Between Plural Bodies; between humans, humanoid aliens, monsters, vampires, plants, things and anything we have no name for yet but which a sonic philosophy might start to hear and call.

Possible Worlds

Author : Rod Girle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317489411
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Possible Worlds written by Rod Girle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Saul Kripke and others developed a semantic interpretation for modal logic, 'possible worlds' has been a much debated issue in contemporary metaphysics. To propose the idea of a possible world that differs in some way from our actual world - for example a world where the grass is red or where no people exist - can help us to analyse and understand a wide range of philosophical concepts, such as counterfactuals, properties, modality, and of course, the notions of possibility and necessity. This book examines the ways in which possible worlds have been used as a framework for considering problems in logic and argument analysis. The book begins with a non-technical introduction to the basic ideas of modal logic in terms of Kripke's possible worlds and then moves on to a discussion of 'possible for' and 'possible that'. The central chapters examine questions of meaning, epistemic possibility, temporal logic, metaphysics, and impossibility. Girle also investigates how the idea of a possible world can be put to use in different areas of philosophy, the problems it may raise, and the benefits that can be gained.

Goethe Yearbook 24

Author : Adrian Daub
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 157113977X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Goethe Yearbook 24 written by Adrian Daub and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and his age, featuring in this volume a special section on the poetics of space in the Goethezeit.

Possible Worlds in Literary Theory

Author : Ruth Ronen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521456487
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Possible Worlds in Literary Theory written by Ruth Ronen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of possible worlds, originally introduced in philosophical logic, has recently gained interdisciplinary influence; it proves to be a productive tool when borrowed by literary theory to explain the notion of fictional worlds. In this book Ruth Ronen develops a comparative reading of the use of possible worlds in philosophy and in literary theory, and offers an analysis of the way the concept contributes to our understanding of fictionality and the structure and ontology of fictional worlds. Dr Ronen suggests a new set of criteria for the definition of fictionality, making rigorous distinctions between fictional and possible worlds; and through specific studies of domains within fictional worlds - events, objects, time, and point of view - she proposes a radical rethinking of the problem of fictionality in general and fictional narrativity in particular.

Possible Worlds

Author : John Divers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134731604
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Possible Worlds written by John Divers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possible Worlds presents the first up-to-date and comprehensive examination of one of the most important topics in metaphysics. John Divers considers the prevalent philosophical positions, including realism, antirealism and the work of important writers on possible worlds such as David Lewis, evaluating them in detail.

Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology

Author : Alice Bell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149621305X
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology written by Alice Bell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of possible worlds has played a decisive role in postclassical narratology by awakening interest in the nature of fictionality and in emphasizing the notion of world as a source of aesthetic experience in narrative texts. As a theory concerned with the opposition between the actual world that we belong to and possible worlds created by the imagination, possible worlds theory has made significant contributions to narratology. Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology updates the field of possible worlds theory and postclassical narratology by developing this theoretical framework further and applying it to a range of contemporary literary narratives. This volume systematically outlines the theoretical underpinnings of the possible worlds approach, provides updated methods for analyzing fictional narrative, and profiles those methods via the analysis of a range of different texts, including contemporary fiction, digital fiction, video games, graphic novels, historical narratives, and dramatic texts. Through the variety of its contributions, including those by three originators of the subject area--Lubomír Doležel, Thomas Pavel, and Marie-Laure Ryan--Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology demonstrates the vitality and versatility of one of the most vibrant strands of contemporary narrative theory.

Constructing the World

Author : David J. Chalmers
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191654949
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Constructing the World written by David J. Chalmers and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Chalmers develops a picture of reality on which all truths can be derived from a limited class of basic truths. The picture is inspired by Rudolf Carnap's construction of the world in Der Logische Aufbau Der Welt. Carnap's Aufbau is often seen as a noble failure, but Chalmers argues that a version of the project can succeed. With the right basic elements and the right derivation relation, we can indeed construct the world. The focal point of Chalmers' project is scrutability: the thesis that ideal reasoning from a limited class of basic truths yields all truths about the world. Chalmers first argues for the scrutability thesis and then considers how small the base can be. The result is a framework in "metaphysical epistemology": epistemology in service of a global picture of the world. The scrutability framework has ramifications throughout philosophy. Using it, Chalmers defends a broadly Fregean approach to meaning, argues for an internalist approach to the contents of thought, and rebuts W.V. Quine's arguments against the analytic and the a priori. He also uses scrutability to analyze the unity of science, to defend a sort of conceptual metaphysics, and to mount a structuralist response to skepticism. Based on Chalmers's 2010 John Locke lectures, Constructing the World opens up debate on central philosophical issues concerning knowledge, language, mind, and reality.

Possible Worlds in Humanities, Arts and Sciences

Author : Allén Sture
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110866854
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Possible Worlds in Humanities, Arts and Sciences written by Allén Sture and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possible worlds in humanities, arts, and sciences : proceedings of Nobel Symposium 65.

Epistemic Complexity and Knowledge Construction

Author : A. Carsetti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400760132
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Epistemic Complexity and Knowledge Construction written by A. Carsetti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume as its first target aims at clarifying that peculiar entanglement of complexity, causality, meaning, emergence and intentionality that characterises the unfolding of the "natural forms" of human cognition As is well known, cognition is not only a self-organising process. It is also a co-operative and coupled process. If we consider the external environment as a complex, multiple and stratified Source which interacts with the nervous system, we can easily realise that the cognitive activities devoted to the "intelligent" search for the depth information living in the Source, may determine the very change of the complexity conditions according to which the Source progressively expresses its "wild" action. In this sense, simulation models are not neutral or purely speculative: the true cognition actually appears to be necessarily connected with successful forms of reading, those forms, in particular, that permit a specific coherent unfolding of the deep information content of the Source. Therefore, the simulation models, if valid, materialise as "creative" channels, i.e., as autonomous functional systems, as the very roots of a new possible development of the entire system represented by mind and its Reality. From a general point of view, the objectivity of Reality is also proportionate to the autonomy reached by cognitive processes. In this sense, at the level of cultural evolution, reference procedures act as guide, mirror and canalisation with respect to primary information flows and involved selective forces: they offer themselves as the actual instruments for the constant renewal of the code, for the invention and the actual articulation of an ever-new incompressibility. From an effective point of view, they appear as indissolubly linked to the successive definition of specific (and innovative) measures of the epistemic complexity. These measures cannot concern only statistical rarity (Shannon) or computational incompressibility (Kolmogorov-Chaitin), on the contrary they should also be able to take into account the coupled connection between the Source and the cognitive agent, the evolution of this connection as well as the successive constitution of meaning as symbolic form. Hence the possible (and necessary) definition of new axiomatic systems, new measure spaces, the real displaying of processes of continuous reorganisation at the semantic level. Indeed, it is only through a complete, first-order "reduction" and a correlated non-standard second-order analysis that new incompressibility will actually manifest itself. Therefore, the reference procedures appear to be related to a process of multiplication of minds, as well as to a process of "clarification" of meanings which finally emerges as vision via principles.

The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction

Author : A. Bell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230281281
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction written by A. Bell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in hypertext and read from a computer, hypertext novels exist as a collection of textual fragments, which must be pieced together by the reader. The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction offers a new critical theory tailored specifically for this burgeoning genre, providing a much needed body of criticism in a key area of new media fiction.

Modal Matters

Author : Phillip Bricker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191664251
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Modal Matters written by Phillip Bricker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together his work from four decades, Phillip Bricker provides a comprehensive account of modal reality - the realm of possible worlds - from a Humean perspective, with excursions into neighboring topics in metaphysics. Many of the chapters in this volume focus on aspects of David Lewis's metaphysics and his defence of modal realism, sometimes further developing and defending Lewis's views, sometimes deviating from them in substantial ways. The volume is presented in four parts: part one sketches an account of reality as a whole, both the mathematical and the modal, defending a form of plenitudinous realism; part two presents and defends a realist theory of concrete possible worlds with an absolute ontological distinction between the actual and the merely possible; part three presents and defends a Humean account of modal plenitude, formulating and endorsing principles that guarantee a plenitude of recombination, of possible structures, and of alien contents; and part four applies the Humean account to truthmaking, mereology, spacetime, and quantities. An uncompromising Humean, Bricker shows that holding fast to Humean strictures leads to views that differ in radical ways from those prevalent among contemporary metaphysicians.

Engineering News-record

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1878 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Engineering News-record written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Writing and Reading Differently

Author : George Douglas Atkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Writing and Reading Differently written by George Douglas Atkins and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Leibniz

Author : Maria Rosa Antognazza
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198718640
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Leibniz written by Maria Rosa Antognazza and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work considers who Leibniz was and introduces his overarching intellectual vision. It follows his pursuit of the systematic reform and advancement of all the sciences, to be undertaken as a collaborative enterprise supported by an enlightened ruler, and his ultimate goal of the improvement of the human condition.

Aspiring to the Landscape

Author : Petra Halkes
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802038948
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Aspiring to the Landscape written by Petra Halkes and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of nature as a cultural construction has been discussed extensively in postmodern theory. Less attention, however, has been paid to the underlying motivations shaping the ideologies of nature, in particular the desire to submit to some larger order outside of oneself. Aspiring to the Landscape examines this persistent desire and how it is made manifest in contemporary landscape art. Four installations of large-scale paintings by Canadian artists Eleanor Bond, Susan Feindel, Stephen Hutchings, and Wanda Koop are the focus of Petra Halkes's study. The works vary widely in style and iconography but are drawn together by the way they invite a reflection on the troubled relationship between culture and nature and our contradictory and simultaneous longing to conquer and to succumb to nature. It is the tension between modern and postmodern interpretations of the subject of nature that makes the theory and the artwork discussed in Aspiring to the Landscape so important to contemporary Canadian culture.