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The Nature of the Physical World

Author : Arthur Stanley Eddington
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547198598

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The Nature of the Physical World by Arthur Stanley Eddington Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Nature of the Physical World" by Arthur Stanley Eddington. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

In Contact with the Physical World

Author : John Pennycuick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Perception
ISBN : OCLC:44823702

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The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : SteinerBooks
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780880109420

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The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World by Rudolf Steiner Pdf

10 lectures in Düsseldorf, April 12-18, 1909; participants' notes from Q&A sessions (CW 110) Ever since nature and consciousness were separated during the late Middle Ages --giving rise to scientific thinking that considers only the physical world and views the mind as merely an epiphenomenon of neural chemistry --the spiritual beings who are the universe have felt abandoned and unable to complete their work, which depends on human collaboration for its success. Human beings have likewise felt abandoned and alienated.In these remarkable lectures, Rudolf Steiner reestablishes the human being as a participant in an evolving, dynamic universe of living spiritual beings: a living universe, whole and divine. He does so in concrete images, capable of being grasped by human consciousness as if from within.How is this possible? Implicit in Rudolf Steiner's view is the fact that, essentially, the universe consists of consciousness. Everything else is illusion. Hence, to understand the evolution of the cosmos and humanity in any terms other than consciousness is also an illusion. Whenever we are dealing with grand cosmic facts, we are dealing with states of consciousness. But states of consciousness never exist apart from the beings who embody them. Therefore, the only true realities are beings in various states of consciousness. In this sense, Steiner's spiritual science is a science of states of consciousness and the beings who embody them. Indeed, any science --physics, chemistry, botany, psychology --is a science of beings. And the sensory perception, or physical trace, is simply the outer vestment of the activity of beings in various states of consciousness. To describe these beings, Steiner uses the names made familiar by the wisdom traditions of the West. He speaks of the evolutionary states of Saturn, Sun, Moon, and so on; the nine choirs of angels; elemental beings and nature spirits; and the elements of fire, earth, air, and water. The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World: Zodiac, Planets & Cosmos is a translation from German of Geistige Hiearchien und ihre Wiederspiegelung in der physischen Welt. Tierkreis, Planeten, Kosmos(GA 110). The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World: Reality and Illusion (1996) contained a previous edition of this lecture course.

Mind in a Physical World

Author : Jaegwon Kim
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0262611538

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This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. Kim construes the mind-body problem as that of finding a place for the mind in a world that is fundamentally physical. Among other points, he redefines the roles of supervenience and emergence in the discussion of the mind-body problem. Arguing that various contemporary accounts of mental causation are inadequate, he offers his own partially reductionist solution on the basis of a novel model of reduction. Retaining the informal tone of the lecture format, the book is clear yet sophisticated.

The Physical World

Author : Nicholas Manton,Nicholas Mee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198795933

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"It is over half a century since The Feynman lectures on physics were published. A new authoritative account of fundamental physics covering all branches of the subject is now well overdue. The physical world has been written to satisfy this need."--Back cover.

The Investigation of the Physical World

Author : Giuliano Toraldo di Francia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1981-05-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521233380

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The Investigation of the Physical World by Giuliano Toraldo di Francia Pdf

Originally published in Italian in 1976, this book describes the methods scientists use to investigate the physical world. It is ideal for students and teachers of science and the philosophy of science. It is both a high-level popularization and a critical appraisal of these methods, describing important advances in physics and analyzing the historical development, value, reliability and philosophical implications of the way physicists approach the problems confronting them. The introductory chapter on the meaning of physical theories and the mathematical tools used to develop them is followed by a general discussion on the foundations of physics under four major headings: the physics of the reversible, the physics of the irreversible, microphysics, and cosmology. Throughout, the subject matter of physical theories is linked to discussion of the attendant philosophical and epistemological implications, such as the validity of the theories, inductive inference, causal explanation, probability, the role of observation and the reality of physical objects.

Mathematics and the Physical World

Author : Morris Kline
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486136318

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Stimulating account of development of mathematics from arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonometry, to calculus, differential equations, and non-Euclidean geometries. Also describes how math is used in optics, astronomy, and other phenomena.

The Nature of the Physical World

Author : Sir Arthur Eddington
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783735732668

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The Nature of the Physical World by Sir Arthur Eddington Pdf

In these lectures the author Eddington discusses some of the results of modern study of the physical world which give most food for philosophic thought. This will include new conceptions in science and also new knowledge. In both respects we are led to think of the material universe in a way very different from that prevailing at the classical physics. This book is substantially the course of Gifford Lectures which the author Eddington delivered in the University of Edinburgh in January to March 1927. It treats of the philosophical outcome of the great changes of scientific thought. The theory of relativity and the quantum theory have led to strange new conceptions of the physical world; the progress of the principles of thermodynamics has wrought more gradual but no less profound change.

The Eigen Theory of the Physical World

Author : Deepal S. Benaragama, Ph. D.
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781839754517

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The Eigen Theory of the Physical World by Deepal S. Benaragama, Ph. D. Pdf

In the Eigen Theory of the physical world, the fundamental form of a particle of matter is a distribution of points that forms a manifold of its own. Each point results from the intersection of a corresponding pair of eigenvelocity vectors, which are functions of a pair of symmetric and antisymmetric tensors characteristic of gravitation and electromagnetism respectively. The theory develops in three stages. The first and second stages produce the wave and particle aspects matter. The third stage formulates the base manifold, characterised by an eigenfield of a second pair of symmetric and antisymmetric tensors, in which the particle moves as a whole but with only the particle centre remaining in contact with it. The first two stages expose the reality behind matter-antimatter, the quantum mechanical wave-particle duality and the results of the double-slit experiment. The third stage reveals the nature of dark energy and the structure of dark matter. In Eigen Theory Quantum Mechanics becomes restructured; in particular the uncertainty principle ceases to exist.

Arthur S. Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World

Author : H.G. Callaway
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443867030

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Arthur S. Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World by H.G. Callaway Pdf

Arthur S. Eddington, FRS, (1882–1944) was one of the most prominent British scientists of his time. He made major contributions to astrophysics and to the broader understanding of the revolutionary theories of relativity and quantum mechanics. He is famed for his astronomical observations of 1919, confirming Einstein’s prediction of the curving of the paths of starlight, and he was the first major interpreter of Einstein’s physics to the English-speaking world. His 1928 book, The Nature of the Physical World, here re-issued in a critical, annotated edition, was largely responsible for his fame as a public interpreter of science and has had a significant influence on both the public and the philosophical understanding of 20th-century physics. In degree, Eddington’s work has entered into our contemporary understanding of modern physics, and, in consequence, critical attention to his most popular book repays attention. Born at Kendal near Lake Windermere in the northwest of England into a Quaker background, Eddington attended Owens College, Manchester, and afterward Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won high mathematical honors, including Senior Wrangler. He became Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge in 1913 and in 1914 Director of the Cambridge Observatory. Eddington was a conscientious objector during the First World War. By the end of his career, he was widely esteemed and had received honorary degrees from many universities. He was elected president of the Royal Astronomical Society (1921–1923), and was subsequently elected President of the Physical Society (1930–1932), the Mathematical Association (1932), and the International Astronomical Union (1938–1944). Eddington was knighted in 1930 and received the Order of Merit in 1938. During the 1930s, his popular and more philosophical books made him a well known figure to the general public. Philosophers have found his writings of considerable interest, and have debated his themes for nearly a hundred years.

The System of Nature, Or, Laws of the Moral and Physical World

Author : Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (baron d')
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Materialism
ISBN : HARVARD:AH5B66

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Collected Writings, 1920-1950

Author : Alfred Korzybski
Publisher : Institute of GS
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0910780080

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Collected Writings, 1920-1950 by Alfred Korzybski Pdf

Fifty-six items, plus documentary 'supplements', can be considered a biographical as well as theoretical working edition of the origins and development of Korzybski's revolutionary system called "general semantics".

Varieties of the Gaming Experience

Author : Robert Perinbanayagam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351296106

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Varieties of the Gaming Experience by Robert Perinbanayagam Pdf

The games that human societies devised over the centuries can be considered one of the most comprehensive and fertile symbolic systems ever created by human ingenuity. In all societies, members feel compelled to interact and communicate with each other as much as possible. As linguistic creatures, humans use language to establish social and interpersonal contacts. Games are a device to enable such connections. Robert Perinbanayagam examines how players value games. He assesses games as systems that embody metaphysics and pragmatic action. He then examines various religious ideas and how participants reference respective approaches to game playing. Perinbanayagam argues that games are forms of activity in which the human agent as an actor engages with others in various interactional situations. Such engagement creates dramas in which agents assume identities, give play to emotions and enrich their selves. He also examines the issue of game writing, particularly how selected writers have used game structures as narrative devices in their work.

All from One

Author : Pieter d' Hoine,Marije Martijn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199640331

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All from One by Pieter d' Hoine,Marije Martijn Pdf

Proclus (412-485 A.D.) was one of the last great philosophers of Antiquity. His legacy in the cultural history of the west can hardly be overestimated. This work is the most comprehensive guide to Proclus' life, thought and legacy that is currently available.