Toward A Directionalist Theory Of Space

Author : H. Scott Hestevold
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498579971

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Toward a Directionalist Theory of Space by H. Scott Hestevold Pdf

In Toward a Directionalist Theory of Space: On Going Nowhere, H. Scott Hestevold formulates a new relationalist theory of space by appealing to the view that the universe is directioned in the sense that there exist directional relations—a class of spatial relations that Leibniz overlooked. Extending the directionalist/relationalist theory of space to the problem of when it is that discrete objects compose a whole, Hestevold revisits his answer to the Special Composition Question. He also uses the directionalist/relationalist theory to formulate reductivist theories of boundaries and holes—theories that may allow one to resist the view that boundaries and holes are ontologically parasitic entities. Finally, he explores directionalism/relationalism vis-à-vis spacetime. After noting findings of modern physics that favor substantivalist spacetime and then developing metaphysical concerns that favor instead directionalist/relationalist spacetime, Hestevold notes the ontological benefit of endorsing spatiotemporal directional relations even if spacetime substantivalism is the winning theory.

Author : Dennis Skocz
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666918298

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On Dwelling by Dennis Skocz Pdf

On Dwelling explores the meaning of dwelling in places where we humans live and work—from our homes to the very planet we co-inhabit. Crossing boundaries and disciplines, it lays the groundwork for addressing place-based issues like migration, ethnic division, resource use, and human-caused peril to the earth itself.

Author : Kip Redick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666916706

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American Camino by Kip Redick Pdf

This book explores the relationship between long-distance hiking—in this case, hiking the Appalachian Trail—and spiritual pilgrimage. Kip Redick interprets the Appalachian Trail as a site of spiritual journey and those who hike the wilderness trail as unique contemporary pilgrims.

Author : Akel Isma'il Kahera
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793646880

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The Place of the Mosque by Akel Isma'il Kahera Pdf

The Place of the Mosque: Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power extends Foucault’s analysis, Of Other Spaces, and the “ideological conflicts which underlie the controversies of our day [and] take place between pious descendants of time and tenacious inhabitants of space.” This book uses Foucault’s framework to illuminate how mosques have been threatened in the past, from the Cordóba Mosque in the eighth century, to the development of Moorish aesthetics in the United States in the nineteenth century, to the clashes surrounding the building of mosques in the West in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Akel Kahera uses Foucault’s genealogy to elaborate on and study the subjects that are caught in the emergence of a battle—the social and political will to power, the networks of power, and the rituals of power—within the interstitial space. In going beyond individual buildings to broader geographical and genealogical dimensions of the power struggles, The Place of the Mosque reconciles the public space experience, governmentality, and micro powers, paving the way for a new philosophical language. Expanding architectural and urban regional approaches, Kahera shows the biopolitical significance of the problem of space.

Author : Dennis Lehmkuhl,Gregor Schiemann,Erhard Scholz
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781493932108

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Towards a Theory of Spacetime Theories by Dennis Lehmkuhl,Gregor Schiemann,Erhard Scholz Pdf

This contributed volume is the result of a July 2010 workshop at the University of Wuppertal Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies which brought together world-wide experts from physics, philosophy and history, in order to address a set of questions first posed in the 1950s: How do we compare spacetime theories? How do we judge, objectively, which is the “best” theory? Is there even a unique answer to this question? The goal of the workshop, and of this book, is to contribute to the development of a meta-theory of spacetime theories. Such a meta-theory would reveal insights about specific spacetime theories by distilling their essential similarities and differences, deliver a framework for a class of theories that could be helpful as a blueprint to build other meta-theories, and provide a higher level viewpoint for judging which theory most accurately describes nature. But rather than drawing a map in broad strokes, the focus is on particularly rich regions in the “space of spacetime theories.” This work will be of interest to physicists, as well as philosophers and historians of science working with or interested in General Relativity and/or Space, Time and Gravitation more generally.

Author : Ayya Khema
Publisher : Wisdom Publications (MA)
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UVA:X002151230

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Being Nobody, Going Nowhere by Ayya Khema Pdf

Techniques for developing meditative insight and compassion, written with pure sincerity by a Western Buddhist nun.

Author : Crosbie Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226764206

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The Science of Energy by Crosbie Smith Pdf

Although we take it for granted today, the concept of "energy" transformed nineteenth-century physics. In The Science of Energy, Crosbie Smith shows how a North British group of scientists and engineers, including James Joule, James Clerk Maxwell, William and James Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin, and P. G. Tait, developed energy physics to solve practical problems encountered by Scottish shipbuilders and marine engineers; to counter biblical revivalism and evolutionary materialism; and to rapidly enhance their own scientific credibility. Replacing the language and concepts of classical mechanics with terms such as "actual" and "potential" energy, the North British group conducted their revolution in physics so astutely and vigorously that the concept of "energy"—a valuable commodity in the early days of industrialization—became their intellectual property. Smith skillfully places this revolution in its scientific and cultural context, exploring the actual creation of scientific knowledge during one of the most significant episodes in the history of physics.

Author : Michael Peterson,Dennis Venema
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107031487

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Biology, Religion, and Philosophy by Michael Peterson,Dennis Venema Pdf

A comprehensive and accessible survey of the major issues at the biology-religion interface.

Author : Richard G. Delisle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030172039

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Charles Darwin's Incomplete Revolution by Richard G. Delisle Pdf

This book offers a thorough reanalysis of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, which for many people represents the work that alone gave rise to evolutionism. Of course, scholars today know better than that. Yet, few resist the temptation of turning to the Origin in order to support it or reject it in light of their own work. Apparently, Darwin fills the mythical role of a founding figure that must either be invoked or repudiated. The book is an invitation to move beyond what is currently expected of Darwin's magnum opus. Once the rhetorical varnish of Darwin's discourses is removed, one discovers a work of remarkably indecisive conclusions. The book comprises two main theses: (1) The Origin of Species never remotely achieved the theoretical unity to which it is often credited. Rather, Darwin was overwhelmed by a host of phenomena that could not fit into his narrow conceptual framework. (2) In the Origin of Species, Darwin failed at completing the full conversion to evolutionism. Carrying many ill-designed intellectual tools of the 17th and 18th centuries, Darwin merely promoted a special brand of evolutionism, one that prevented him from taking the decisive steps toward an open and modern evolutionism. It makes an interesting read for biologists, historians and philosophers alike.

Author : Michael Ruse
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226731693

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The Darwinian Revolution by Michael Ruse Pdf

Prologue p. ix Acknowledgments p. xv 1 Background to the Problem p. 3 2 British Society and the Scientific Community p. 16 3 Beliefs: Geological, Philosophical, and Religious p. 36 4 The Mystery of Mysteries p. 75 5 Ancestors and Archetypes p. 94 6 On the Eve of the Origin p. 132 7 Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species p. 160 8 After the Origin: Science p. 202 9 After the Origin: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics p. 234 10 Overview and Analysis p. 268 Notes p. 275 Bibliography p. 285 Index p. 312.

Author : Janet Donohoe
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739187173

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Remembering Places by Janet Donohoe Pdf

This book is a phenomenological investigation of the interrelations of tradition, memory, place and the body. Drawing upon philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, Janet Donohoe uses the idea of a palimpsest to argue that layers of the past are carried along as traditions, through places and bodies, such that we can speak of memory as being written upon place and place as being written upon memory. In dialogue with theorists such as Jeff Malpas and Ed Casey, Donohoe focuses on analysis of monuments and memorials to investigate how such deliberate places of collective memory can be ideological, or can open us to the past and different traditions. The insights in this book will be of particular value to place theorists and phenomenologists in disciplines such as philosophy, geography, memory studies, public history, and environmental studies.

Author : Stephen Inwood
Publisher : MacAdam/Cage Publishing
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1596921153

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The Forgotten Genius by Stephen Inwood Pdf

In Inwood's biography of this forgotten scientist, Robert Hooke and his world are vividly recreated with all their contradictions, successes, and failures. The Forgotten Genius is an absorbing and compelling study of this unduly overlooked man.

Author : Graham Nerlich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521452618

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What Spacetime Explains by Graham Nerlich Pdf

Eleven of Graham Nerlich's essays are here brought together dealing with ontology and methodology in relativity; variable curvature and general relativity; and time and causation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Coronet Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015055732518

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Geological Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Bornedal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498579315

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Nietzsche's Naturalist Deconstruction of Truth by Peter Bornedal Pdf

Nietzsche’s Naturalist Deconstruction of Truth: A World Fragmented in Late Nineteenth-Century Epistemology offers a new interpretation of Nietzsche’s discussions of truth and knowledge, covering the period from his early essay “On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense” to his late notebooks. It places these discussions in the context of the neo-Kantian, Naturalist, Positivist, and Pragmatic schools influential in Nietzsche’s late nineteenth-century Europe. Peter Bornedal argues for a view of Nietzsche’s epistemological thought as an elaboration of this paradigm: proposing ideas that are anti-metaphysical and anti-theological in their polemic orientation, and in general promoting new scientific naturalist ideals in the discussions of knowledge. Bornedal suggests that the rational pursuit of these new ideals to the unencumbered mind logically leads to Nihilism in its most profound epistemological sense. Nietzsche’s “critique of metaphysics” is thus seen as having sprung from sources different from and, at times, in patent opposition to more recent postmodern and deconstructionist critiques. This book contextualizes Nietzsche in relation to a number of philosophical peers and juxtaposes him to contemporary thinkers in a way that resolves some of the difficulties that have plagued recent Nietzsche scholarship.