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Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Nature
ISBN : WISC:89055060990
The Tarner Lectures delivered in Trinity College November 1919.
Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486170299
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 North Whitehead
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781602062139
Hailed as "one of the most valuable books on the relation of philosophy and science," Alfred North Whitehead's The Concept of Nature, first published in 1920, was an important contribution to the development of philosophic naturalism. Examining the fundamental problems of substance, space, and time, Whitehead assesses the impact of Einstein's theories as well as the then-recent findings of modern physics on the concept of nature. For students and teachers of natural philosophy, this is essential reading. English mathematician and philosopher ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1861-1947) contributed significantly to 20th-century logic and metaphysics. With Bertrand Russell he cowrote the landmark Principia Mathematica, and also authored An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge, The Function of Reason, and Process and Reality.
Author : Alfred Schmidt
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781781682012
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 : Gerard Naddaf
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791483671
Explores the origin and evolution of the Greek concept of nature up until the time of Plato.
Author : Maria Kronfeldner
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262549684
A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges. Human nature has always been a foundational issue for philosophy. What does it mean to have a human nature? Is the concept the relic of a bygone age? What is the use of such a concept? What are the epistemic and ontological commitments people make when they use the concept? In What's Left of Human Nature? Maria Kronfeldner offers a philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against contemporary criticism. In particular, she takes on challenges related to social misuse of the concept that dehumanizes those regarded as lacking human nature (the dehumanization challenge); the conflict between Darwinian thinking and essentialist concepts of human nature (the Darwinian challenge); and the consensus that evolution, heredity, and ontogenetic development result from nurture and nature. After answering each of these challenges, Kronfeldner presents a revisionist account of human nature that minimizes dehumanization and does not fall back on outdated biological ideas. Her account is post-essentialist because it eliminates the concept of an essence of being human; pluralist in that it argues that there are different things in the world that correspond to three different post-essentialist concepts of human nature; and interactive because it understands nature and nurture as interacting at the developmental, epigenetic, and evolutionary levels. On the basis of this, she introduces a dialectical concept of an ever-changing and “looping” human nature. Finally, noting the essentially contested character of the concept and the ambiguity and redundancy of the terminology, she wonders if we should simply eliminate the term “human nature” altogether.
Author : Peter Remien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108496810
Participates in an intellectual history of ecology while prompting a re-evaluation of nature in the early modern period.
Author : Steven Vogel
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791430456
Against Nature examines the history of the concept of nature in the tradition of Critical Theory, with chapters on Lukacs, Horkheimer and Adorno, Marcuse, and Habermas. It argues that the tradition has been marked by significant difficulties with respect to that concept; that these problems are relevant to contemporary environmental philosophy as well; and that a solution to them requires taking seriously--and literally--the idea of nature as socially constructed.
Author : Roy Ellen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781789208986
Organized around issues, debates and discussions concerning the various ways in which the concept of nature has been used, this book looks at how the term has been endlessly deconstructed and reclaimed, as reflected in anthropological, scientific, and similar writing over the last several decades. Made up of ten of Roy Ellen’s finest articles, this book looks back at his ideas about nature and includes a new introduction that contextualizes the arguments and takes them forward. Many of the chapters focus on research the author has conducted amongst the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia.
Author : Raimonda Modiano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1985-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349071357
Author : North Alfred Whitehead
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1437885497
Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : OCLC:70117463
Author : Francesca Rochberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226406275
In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the “natural world” confronts us all and always has—but Before Nature explores that almost unimaginable time when there was no such conception of “nature”—no word, reference, or sense for it. Before the concept of nature formed over the long history of European philosophy and science, our ancestors in ancient Assyria and Babylonia developed an inquiry into the world in a way that is kindred to our modern science. With Before Nature, Francesca Rochberg explores that Assyro-Babylonian knowledge tradition and shows how it relates to the entire history of science. From a modern, Western perspective, a world not conceived somehow within the framework of physical nature is difficult—if not impossible—to imagine. Yet, as Rochberg lays out, ancient investigations of regularity and irregularity, norms and anomalies clearly established an axis of knowledge between the knower and an intelligible, ordered world. Rochberg is the first scholar to make a case for how exactly we can understand cuneiform knowledge, observation, prediction, and explanation in relation to science—without recourse to later ideas of nature. Systematically examining the whole of Mesopotamian science with a distinctive historical and methodological approach, Before Nature will open up surprising new pathways for studying the history of science.
Author : Alfred Whitehead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1790403855
The Concept of Nature by English mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead was originally published in 1920. The work is based on the Tarner Lectures in the philosophy of science. It critiques ideas about substance, space, and time, rejecting the notion that matter is the ground of reality, and instead posits that the notion of the 'event' and the 'becoming' were the basis for analysing reality.
Author : Irwin Altman,Joachim F. Wohlwill
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461335399
The theme of the present volume concerns people' s response to the natural environment, considered at scales varying from that of a house hold plant to that of vast wilderness areas. Our decision to focus on this particular segment of the physical environment was prompted in part by the intrinsic interest in this subject on the part of a diverse group of sodal scientists and professionals-and of laypersons, for that matter and in part by the relative neglect of this topic in standard treatments of the environment-behavior field. It also serves to bring out once again the interdisdplinary nature of that field, and we are pleased to have been able to inc1ude representatives from geography, sodology, soda! ecology, and natural recreation among our contributors. We believe that this volume will serve a useful purpose in helping to integrate the find ings and concepts in this presently somewhat fragmented field, scat tered as they are over a very diverse array of publications representing a similarly varied group of spedalties. It is hoped that the result will be to stimulate future development of this area and to add a measure of in creased coherence to it. Volume 7 of our series will be devoted to the theme of elderly people and the environment, with M. Powell Lawton joining us as guest co-editor. The titles of the papers comprising Volume 7 are shown on page v. Irwin Altman J oachim F. Wohlwill ix Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .