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The Comprehensibility of the Universe

Author : Nicholas Maxwell
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780199261550
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book The Comprehensibility of the Universe written by Nicholas Maxwell and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comprehensibility of the Universe puts forward a radically new conception of science. According to the orthodox conception, scientific theories are accepted and rejected impartially with respect to evidence, no permanent assumption being made about the world independently of the evidence. Nicholas Maxwell argues that this orthodox view is untenable. He urges that in its place a new orthodoxy is needed, which sees science as making a hierarchy of metaphysical assumptions about the comprehensibility and knowability of the universe, these assumptions asserting less and less as one ascends the hierarchy. This view has significant implications: that it is part of scientific knowledge that the universe is physically comprehensible; that metaphysics and philosophy are central to scientific knowledge; that science possesses a rational, if fallible, method of discovery; that a new understanding of scientific method and rationality is required. Maxwell argues that this new conception makes possible a natural resolution of long-standing philosophical problems about science, regarding simplicity, induction, and progress. His goal is the reform not just of the philosophy of science but of science itself, and the healing of the rift between the two.

The Comprehensibility of the Universe

Author : Nicholas Maxwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191698750
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Comprehensibility of the Universe written by Nicholas Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Maxwell posits an entirely new conception of science in this lucidly argued criticism of the prevailing view of scientific theory and evidence. His aim is to heal the rift between philosophy and science.

A Comprehensible Universe

Author : George V. Coyne
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540776265
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book A Comprehensible Universe written by George V. Coyne and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. In this book we explore the deep roots of the mystery of rationality. The inquiry into the rationality of the world began over two-and-a-half-thousand years ago, when a few courageous people tried to understand the world with the help of reason alone, rejecting the comforting fabric of myth and legend. After many philosophical and theological adventures the Greek concept of rationality laid the foundations of a revolutionary way of thinking: the scientific method, which transformed the world. But looking at the newest fruits of the world's rationality - relativity theory, quantum mechanics, the unification of physics, quantum gravity - the question arises: what are the limits of the scientific method? The principal tenet of rationality is that you should never stop asking questions until everything has been answered ... "A Comprehensible Universe is a thoughtful book by two authors who have professional expertise in physics and astronomy and also in theology. They are exceptionally well informed about the history of the relation between science and theology, and they maintain throughout their discussion a respect for empirical evidence and a dedication to rationality. Even though I do not agree with all of their conclusions on matters of great complexity I am impressed by the fairness of their argumentation." Abner Shimony, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Physics, Boston University

The Comprehensible Universe

Author : John Gilbert Bird
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Comprehensible Universe written by John Gilbert Bird and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Einstein for the 21st Century

Author : Peter Galison
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691135205
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Einstein for the 21st Century written by Peter Galison and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty years after his death, Albert Einstein's vital engagement with the world continues to inspire others, spurring conversations, projects, and research, in the sciences as well as the humanities. Einstein for the 21st Century shows us why he remains a figure of fascination. In this wide-ranging collection, eminent artists, historians, scientists, and social scientists describe Einstein's influence on their work, and consider his relevance for the future. Scientists discuss how Einstein's vision continues to motivate them, whether in their quest for a fundamental description of nature or in their investigations in chaos theory; art scholars and artists explore his ties to modern aesthetics; a music historian probes Einstein's musical tastes and relates them to his outlook in science; historians explore the interconnections between Einstein's politics, physics, and philosophy; and other contributors examine his impact on the innovations of our time. Uniquely cross-disciplinary, Einstein for the 21st Century serves as a testament to his legacy and speaks to everyone with an interest in his work. The contributors are Leon Botstein, Lorraine Daston, E. L. Doctorow, Yehuda Elkana, Yaron Ezrahi, Michael L. Friedman, Jürg Fröhlich, Peter L. Galison, David Gross, Hanoch Gutfreund, Linda D. Henderson, Dudley Herschbach, Gerald Holton, Caroline Jones, Susan Neiman, Lisa Randall, Jürgen Renn, Matthew Ritchie, Silvan S. Schweber, and A. Douglas Stone.

The Human World in the Physical Universe

Author : Nicholas Maxwell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742512269
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Human World in the Physical Universe written by Nicholas Maxwell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it possible for the world as we experience it to exist embedded in the physical universe? How can there be sensory qualities, consciousness, freedom, science and art, friendship, love, justice--all that which gives meaning and value to life--if the world really is more or less as modern science tells us it is? This is the problem that is tackled by this book. The solution proposed is that physics describes only a selected aspect of all that exists--that aspect which determines the way events unfold. Sensory qualities, inner experiences, consciousness, meaning and value, all these exist but lie beyond the scope of physics, and of that part of science that can be reduced to physics. Furthermore, these human features of the world are to be explained and understood, not scientifically, but "personalistically," a kind of understanding distinct from, and not reducible to, science. This view that the world is riddled with what may be called "double comprehensibility" leads to a proposed solution to the philosophical mind/body problem, and to the problem of free will; it leads to a reinterpretation of Darwin's theory of evolution, and to an account of the evolution of consciousness and free will. After a discussion of the location of consciousness in the brain, the book concludes with a proposal as to how academic inquiry might be changed so that it becomes a kind of inquiry rationally designed to help humanity create a more civilized human world in the physical universe.

Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom

Author : Leemon McHenry
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110319438
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom written by Leemon McHenry and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Maxwell's provocative and highly-original philosophy of science urges a revolution in academic inquiry affecting all branches of learning, so that the single-minded pursuit of knowledge is replaced with the aim of helping people realize what is of value in life and make progress toward a more civilized world. This volume of essays from an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars engages Maxwell in critical evaluation and celebrates his contribution to philosophy spanning forty years. Several of the contributors, like Maxwell, took their inspiration from Sir Karl Popper's philosophy of science and were connected to the department he created at the London School of Economics. In the introductory chapter, Maxwell provides an overview of his thought and then defends his views against objections in a concluding essay.

The Comprehensible Universe. Excerpts from the New Philosophy of the Universe

Author : John Gilbert BIRD
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book The Comprehensible Universe. Excerpts from the New Philosophy of the Universe written by John Gilbert BIRD and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God's Undertaker

Author : John C Lennox
Publisher : Lion Books
ISBN 13 : 0745959113
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book God's Undertaker written by John C Lennox and published by Lion Books. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we are to believe many modern commentators, science has squeezed God into a corner, killed and then buried him with its all-embracing explanations. Atheism, we are told, is the only intellectually tenable position, and any attempt to reintroduce God is likely to impede the progress of science. In this stimulating and thought-provoking book, John Lennox invites us to consider such claims very carefully. This book evaluates the evidence of modern science in relation to the debate between the atheistic and theistic interpretations of the universe, and provides a fresh basis for discussion. The chapters include: War of the worldviews The scope and limits of science Reduction, reduction, reduction... Designer universe Designer biosphere The nature and scope of evolution The origin of life The genetic code and its origin Matters of information The monkey machine and, The origin of information. Now updated and expanded, God's Undertaker is an invaluable contribution to the debate about science's relationship to religion.

Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability

Author : Anthony Aguirre
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030703541
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability written by Anthony Aguirre and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a brief time in history, it was possible to imagine that a sufficiently advanced intellect could, given sufficient time and resources, in principle understand how to mathematically prove everything that was true. They could discern what math corresponds to physical laws, and use those laws to predict anything that happens before it happens. That time has passed. Gödel’s undecidability results (the incompleteness theorems), Turing’s proof of non-computable values, the formulation of quantum theory, chaos, and other developments over the past century have shown that there are rigorous arguments limiting what we can prove, compute, and predict. While some connections between these results have come to light, many remain obscure, and the implications are unclear. Are there, for example, real consequences for physics — including quantum mechanics — of undecidability and non-computability? Are there implications for our understanding of the relations between agency, intelligence, mind, and the physical world? This book, based on the winning essays from the annual FQXi competition, contains ten explorations of Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability. The contributions abound with connections, implications, and speculations while undertaking rigorous but bold and open-minded investigation of the meaning of these constraints for the physical world, and for us as humans.

The Tests of Time

Author : Lisa M. Dolling
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691090856
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Tests of Time written by Lisa M. Dolling and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-16 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of physical theory is one of our greatest intellectual achievements. Its products--the currently prevailing theories of physics, astronomy, and cosmology--have proved themselves to possess intrinsic beauty and to have enormous explanatory and predictive power. This anthology of primary readings chronicles the birth and maturation of five such theories (the heliocentric theory, the electromagnetic field theory, special and general relativity, quantum theory, and the big bang theory) in the words of the scientists who brought them to life. It is the first historical account that captures the rich substance of these theories, each of which represents a fascinating story of the interplay of evidence and insight--and of dialogue among great minds. Readers sit in with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo as they overturn the geocentric universe; observe the genius of Faraday and Maxwell as they "discover" the electromagnetic field; look over Einstein's shoulder as he works out the details of relativity; listen in as Einstein and Bohr argue for the soul of quantum mechanics in the Completeness Debate; and watch as Hubble and others reveal the history of the universe. The editors' approach highlights the moments of discovery that rise from scientific creativity, and the presentation humanizes the scientific process, revealing the extent to which great scientists were the first to consider the philosophical implications of their work. But, most significantly, the editors offer this as their central thesis: although each was ushered in by a revolution, and each contains counterintuitive elements that delayed its acceptance, these five theories exhibit a continuous rational development that has led them to a permanent place in the worldview of science. Accessible to the general reader yet sufficiently substantive that working scientists will find value in it, The Tests of Time offers an intimate look into how physical theory has been developed, by the brilliant people who have developed it.

An Anthology of Essays by Ashraf

Author : Mirza Iqbal Ashraf
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663247072
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book An Anthology of Essays by Ashraf written by Mirza Iqbal Ashraf and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Anthology of Essays by Ashraf, is a rich and Intelligent tapestry of thoughts, which are woven in the dimension of time depicting the unity of human experience that every person has within himself/herself the entire human condition. Even if every thought appears as an afterthought, Ashraf has viewed and judged them in the present. It stays in the mind and as a collection of treatises it shares with others the knowledge argued in this work of landmark discerning and entertaining writing. This book is a work of vibrant literary form of essay writing representing the robust tradition of essay writing beginning from Classical Greek period, Ancient Rome, and the Golden Age of the Arabs of Baghdad, Cordova, and Cairo, right up to the modern age of artificial intelligence. In its Part -1, there are essays on the subjects of philosophy, science, human consciousness, artificial intelligence, humanities, origin of democracy, on war and peace. Part-2 contains essays about the world of Islam’s golden age when the knowledge of scientific researches and discoveries by the Muslims was transmitted to the Europeans laying the foundation of progression of knowledge in the Western world.

Our Fundamental Problem

Author : Nicholas Maxwell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228002877
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Our Fundamental Problem written by Nicholas Maxwell and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the world we live in and see, touch, hear, and smell, the world of living things, people, consciousness, free will, meaning, and value - how can all of this exist and flourish embedded as it is in the physical universe, made up of nothing but physical entities such as electrons and quarks? How can anything be of value if everything in the universe is, ultimately, just physics? In Our Fundamental Problem Nicholas Maxwell argues that this problem of reconciling the human and physical worlds needs to take centre stage in our thinking, so that our best ideas about it interact with our attempts to solve even more important specialized problems of thought and life. When we explore this fundamental problem, Maxwell argues, revolutionary answers emerge for a wide range of questions arising in philosophy, science, social inquiry, academic inquiry as a whole, and - most important of all - our capacity to solve the global problems that threaten our future: climate change, habitat destruction, extinction of species, inequality, war, pollution of earth, sea, and air. An unorthodox introduction to philosophy, Our Fundamental Problem brings philosophy down to earth and demonstrates its vital importance for science, scholarship, education, life, and the fate of the world.

Miracles

Author : Eric Metaxas
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525954422
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Miracles written by Eric Metaxas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares compelling case studies that support theories about the plausibility of miracles to discuss what they are, why they happen, and how they can be understood.

Is Science Neurotic?

Author : Nicholas Maxwell
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1783260483
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Is Science Neurotic? written by Nicholas Maxwell and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004-12-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Science Neurotic? sets out to show that science suffers from a damaging but rarely noticed methodological disease — “rationalistic neurosis.” Assumptions concerning metaphysics, human value and politics, implicit in the aims of science, are repressed, and the malaise has spread to affect the whole academic enterprise, with the potential for extraordinarily damaging long-term consequences.The book begins with a discussion of the aims and methods of natural science, and moves on to discuss social science, philosophy, education, psychoanalytic theory and academic inquiry as a whole. It makes an original and compelling contribution to the current debate between those for and those against science, arguing that science would be of greater human value if it were more rigorous — we suffer not from too much scientific rationality, but too little. The author discusses the need for a revolution in the aims of science and academic inquiry in general and, in a lively and accessible style, spells out a thesis with profound importance for the long-term future of humanity.

Faith and Culture

Author : Kelly Monroe Kullberg
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310333660
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Faith and Culture written by Kelly Monroe Kullberg and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who want to love God with their hearts and minds, editors Kelly Monroe Kullberg and Lael Arrington weave together both inspiration and illumination throughout this collection of daily readings. Faith and Culture: A Guide to a Culture Shaped by Faith translates the ideas of today’s Christian thought leaders, delivering them in accessible portions that fit into anyone’s busy schedule. Each chapter interacts with one of seven recurring themes: the Bible and theology, literature, history, contemporary culture, the arts, science and math, and philosophy. Along the way, Kullberg and Arrington explore significant ideas, people, and events from a distinctly Christian worldview. Some of the readings in this book include: Thee Secret Gospels (the Bible and theology), Slavery (history), A Response to God’s Beauty (art), Globalization (contemporary culture), and more Each day spent with this illuminating guide will inspire readers to wonder at the genius, power, and beauty of Jesus.

The Promise of Trinitarian Theology

Author : Elmer M. Colyer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461645352
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book The Promise of Trinitarian Theology written by Elmer M. Colyer and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2001-12-06 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas F. Torrance is considered by many to be the most outstanding living Reformed theologian in the Anglo-Saxon world. In The Promise of Trinitarian Theology, Elmer M. Colyer presents a collection of essays critiquing Torrance's work. It explores his place in Reformed theology and his relation to the Greek fathers. Both everyday life and scientific understanding are discussed in the essays within. The Promise of Trinitarian Theology is a hopeful step engaging the works of T. F. Torrance and the theology behind his words.