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Author : Shannon M. Mussett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786612472
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book traces the development of entropic themes, capturing phenomena ranging from chaos, disorder, homogenization, slackening, disspation, and ultimately death.
Author : Stevie Kaschke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1737121107
The Entropic Philosophy takes a science-based approach to answering our most pressing existential questions. Drawing from fields like astrophysics, evolutionary biology, and non-equilibrium thermodynamics, the thought experiments detailed in this book provide novel explanations for both biological life and human consciousness. The central thought experiment proposes that we live in an evolutionary multiverse and that life on Earth and human consciousness are the predictable outcomes of natural selection at a grand scale. Writing for a diverse audience, Kaschke excels at making these topics accessible to any eager mind. The philosophical implications of Kaschke's thought experiments are profound; offering desperately needed fresh insights into pressing and timely ethical questions. The Entropic Philosophy offers a new worldview with much to say on topics like climate change, space colonization, feminism, commerce, genetic engineering, and artificial intelligence. In a single book, The Entropic Philosophy provides a new set of answers to ancient questions but also lays bare just how much we have left to learn.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781498568005
Author : Herman Simissen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004464773
This study – the first full-length monograph in English on the subject – discusses the genesis of Theodor Lessing’s philosophy of history as mainly expressed in his books Geschichte als Sinngebung des Sinnlosen (1919 and 1927), as well as its philosophical implications.
Author : Lawrence Sklar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520061802
Author : Lawrence Sklar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139619219
Although now replaced by more modern theories, classical mechanics remains a core foundational element of physical theory. From its inception, the theory of dynamics has been riddled with conceptual issues and differing philosophical interpretations and throughout its long historical development, it has shown subtle conceptual refinement. The interpretive program for the theory has also shown deep evolutionary change over time. Lawrence Sklar discusses crucial issues in the central theory from which contemporary foundational theories are derived and shows how some core issues (the nature of force, the place of absolute reference frames) have nevertheless remained deep puzzles despite the increasingly sophisticated understanding of the theory which has been acquired over time. His book will be of great interest to philosophers of science, philosophers in general and physicists concerned with foundational interpretive issues in their field.
Author : Clayton Crockett,B. Keith Putt,Jeffrey W. Robbins
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253013934
What is the future of Continental philosophy of religion? These forward-looking essays address the new thinkers and movements that have gained prominence since the generation of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, and Levinas and how they will reshape Continental philosophy of religion in the years to come. They look at the ways concepts such as liberation, sovereignty, and post-colonialism have engaged this new generation with political theology and the new pathways of thought that have opened in the wake of speculative realism and recent findings in neuroscience and evolutionary psychology. Readers will discover new directions in this challenging and important area of philosophical inquiry.
Author : Joff P. N. Bradley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000920093
This is the second volume of research into the philosophy of Bernard Stiegler and its interconnections with the philosophy of education. Building on the first edited collection, Stiegler’s philosophy is introduced to scholars in the field of the philosophy of education in the hope that researchers dig deep into his philosophy and apply it to their own educational context in order to produce new forms of knowledge, that is “negentropic” forms of knowledge which may counter the endemic crises we see in educational institutions in towns, cities and villages across the planet. This second volume throws down the gauntlet to others to find new ways to contest toxic forms of digital life inside and outside education and to challenge entrenched and conservative ways of teaching and learning in the 21st century. The writers in this volume from Australasia, Europe, and across South, Southeast and East Asia do a remarkable job of translating Bernard Stiegler’s sometimes complicated language into ways which are interpretable, applicable and communicable to those who witness, day in day out, in their schools, universities and institutions the struggle to capture the hearts and minds of young people. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory.
Author : Kevin Aho,Megan Altman,Hans Pedersen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781040006290
Of the philosophical movements of the twentieth century existentialism is one of the most powerful and thought-provoking. Its engagement with the themes of authenticity, freedom, bad faith, nihilism, and the death of God captured the imagination of millions. However, in the twenty-first century existentialism is grappling with fresh questions and debates that move far beyond traditional existential preoccupations, ranging from the lived experience of the embodied self, intersectionality, and feminist theory to comparative philosophy, digital existentialism, disability studies, and philosophy of race. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism explores these topics and more, connecting the ideas and insights of existentialism with some of the most urgent debates and challenges in philosophy today. Eight clear sections explore the following topics: methodology and technology social and political perspectives environment and place affectivity and emotion death and freedom value existentialism and Asian philosophy aging and disability. As well as chapters on key figures such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and Beauvoir, the Handbook includes chapters on topics as diverse as Chicana feminism, ecophilosophy and the environment, Latina existentialism, Black nihilism, the Kyoto school and southeast Asian existentialism, and the experiences of aging, disability, and death. Essential reading for students and researchers in the areas of existentialism and phenomenology, The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism will also be of interest to those studying ethics, philosophy and gender, philosophy of race, the emotions and philosophical issues in health and illness as well as related disciplines such as Literature, Sociology, and Political Theory.
Author : Cynthia D. Coe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030668570
This volume examines the complex dialogue between German Idealism and phenomenology, two of the most important movements in Western philosophy. Twenty-four newly authored chapters by an international group of well-known scholars examine the shared concerns of these two movements; explore how phenomenologists engage with, challenge, and critique central concepts in German Idealism; and argue for the continuing significance of these ideas in contemporary philosophy and other disciplines. Chapters cover not only the work of major figures such as Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty, but a wide range of philosophers who build on the phenomenological tradition, including Fanon, Gadamer, and Levinas. These essays highlight key themes of the nature of subjectivity, the role of intersubjectivity, the implications for ethics and aesthetics, the impact of time and history, and our capacities for knowledge and understanding. Key features: · Critically engages two of the major philosophical movements of the last 250 years · Draws on the insights of those movements to address contemporary issues in ethics, theory of knowledge, and political philosophy · Expands the range of idealist and phenomenological themes by considering them in the context of gender, postcolonial theory, and environmental concerns, as well as their global reach · Includes new contributions from prominent, international scholars in these fields This Handbook is essential reading for all scholars and advanced students of phenomenology and German Idealism. With chapters on Beauvoir, Sartre, Scheler, Schutz, Stein, and Ricoeur, The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Phenomenology is also ideal for scholars researching these important figures in the history of philosophy.
Author : Lawrence Sklar
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429966859
This book focuses on the most important questions of philosophy of physics, offering a sufficiently concise and clear treatment of the issues to lead the interested reader through the sometimes labyrinthian paths taken by the central debates.
Author : Chris Letheby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780198843122
This book is the first scholarly monograph in English devoted to the philosophical analysis of psychedelic drugs. Its central focus is the apparent conflict between the growing use of psychedelics in psychiatry and the philosophical worldview of naturalism.
Author : Libor Kubát,Jiří Zeman
Publisher : Elsevier Science & Technology
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015066076756
Author : Helge S. Kragh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317142478
Entropic Creation is the first English-language book to consider the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, from around 1860 to 1920. According to the second law of thermodynamics, as formulated by the German physicist Rudolf Clausius, the entropy of any closed system will inevitably increase in time, meaning that the system will decay and eventually end in a dead state of equilibrium. Application of the law to the entire universe, first proposed in the 1850s, led to the prediction of a future 'heat death', where all life has ceased and all organization dissolved. In the late 1860s it was pointed out that, as a consequence of the heat death scenario, the universe can have existed only for a finite period of time. According to the 'entropic creation argument', thermodynamics warrants the conclusion that the world once begun or was created. It is these two scenarios, allegedly consequences of the science of thermodynamics, which form the core of this book. The heat death and the claim of cosmic creation were widely discussed in the period 1870 to 1920, with participants in the debate including European scientists, intellectuals and social critics, among them the physicist William Thomson and the communist thinker Friedrich Engels. One reason for the passion of the debate was that some authors used the law of entropy increase to argue for a divine creation of the world. Consequently, the second law of thermodynamics became highly controversial. In Germany in particular, materialists and positivists engaged in battle with Christian - mostly Catholic - scholars over the cosmological consequences of thermodynamics. This heated debate, which is today largely forgotten, is reconstructed and examined in detail in this book, bringing into focus key themes on the interactions between cosmology, physics, religion and ideology, and the public way in which these topics were discussed in the latter half of the nineteenth and the first years of the twentieth century.
Author : Drew M. Dalton
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810146426
A provocative and entirely new account of ethical reasoning that reconceives the traditional understanding of ethical action negatively In this radical reconsideration of ethical reasoning in contemporary European philosophy, Drew M. Dalton makes the case for an absolutely grounded account of ethical normativity developed from a scientifically informed and purely materialistic metaphysics. Expanding on speculative realist arguments, Dalton argues that the limits placed on the nature of ethical judgments by Kant’s critique can be overcome through a moral evaluation of the laws of nature—specifically, the entropic principle that undergirds the laws of physics, chemistry, and biology. In order to extract a moral meaning from this simple material fact, Dalton scrutinizes the presumptions of classical accounts and traditional understandings of good and evil within the history of Western philosophy and ultimately asserts that ethical normativity can be reestablished absolutely without reverting to dogmatism. By overturning our assumptions about the nature and value of reality, The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism presents a provocative new model of ethical responsibility that is both logically justifiable and scientifically sound. Dalton argues for “ethical pessimism,” a position previously marginalized in the West, as a means to cultivate an account of ethical responsibility and political activism that takes seriously the unbecoming of being and the moral horror of existence.