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Author : Joseph Mazur
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 0525949925
Traces the epic history of Greek philosopher Zeno's yet-unsolved paradox of motion, citing the contributions of top minds to the scientific community's understanding of the elusive basic structure of time and space.
Author : Joseph Mazur
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 0452289173
The fascinating story of an ancient riddle and what it reveals about the nature of time and space Three millennia ago, the Greek philosopher Zeno constructed a series of logical paradoxes to prove that motion is impossible. Today, these paradoxes remain on the cutting edge of our investigations into the fabric of space and time. Zeno's Paradox uses the motion paradox as a jumping-off point for an exploration of the twenty-five-hundred-year quest to uncover the true nature of the universe. From Galileo to Einstein to Stephen Hawking, some of the greatest minds in history have tackled the problem and made spectacular breakthroughs, but through it all, the paradox of motion remains.
Author : Wesley C. Salmon
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0872205606
A reprint of the Bobbs-Merrill edition of 1970. These essays lead the reader through the land of the wonderful shrinking genie to the warehouse where the infinity machines are kept. By careful examination of a lamp that is switched on and off infinitely many times, or the workings of a machine that prints out an infinite decimal expansion of pi, we begin to understand how it is possible for Achilles to overtake the tortoise. The concepts that form the basis of modern science---space, time, motion, change, infinity---are examined and explored in this edition. Includes an updated bibliography.
Author : Joseph Mazur
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781440639630
The fascinating story of an ancient riddle and what it reveals about the nature of time and space Three millennia ago, the Greek philosopher Zeno constructed a series of logical paradoxes to prove that motion is impossible. Today, these paradoxes remain on the cutting edge of our investigations into the fabric of space and time. Zeno's Paradox uses the motion paradox as a jumping-off point for an exploration of the twenty-five-hundred-year quest to uncover the true nature of the universe. From Galileo to Einstein to Stephen Hawking, some of the greatest minds in history have tackled the problem and made spectacular breakthroughs, but through it all, the paradox of motion remains.
Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788726645729
When a tortoise challenges a great Greek hero to use his logic in order to decipher a simple philosophical argument, slight chaos ensues. ‘What the Tortoise Said to Achilles’ is an endless cycle of suppositions and deductions. A refined piece of philosophical writing, Caroll’s discussion was one of the first steps towards paradoxically explaining logical truth. His clever prose makes this novel an essential read for budding philosophers and logic aficionados. Lewis Caroll (1832-1898) was a British author. He was famed for his novel ‘Alice in Wonderland' and its sequel ‘Through the Looking-Glass’. Both of which have been successfully adapted to film and stage. Aside from this, he was also a mathematician, professional photographer, and clergyman. His colorful plotlines, powerful imagery, and endless imagination earned him the title of one of the most notable authors of the nineteenth century. Among his other notable works are the poetic collection "Phantasmagoria and Other Poems", the poem "The Hunting of the Snark", and the fairy novel "Sylvie and Bruno".
Author : Samuel Scolnicov
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520925113
Of all Plato’s dialogues, the Parmenides is notoriously the most difficult to interpret. Scholars of all periods have disagreed about its aims and subject matter. The interpretations have ranged from reading the dialogue as an introduction to the whole of Platonic metaphysics to seeing it as a collection of sophisticated tricks, or even as an elaborate joke. This work presents an illuminating new translation of the dialogue together with an extensive introduction and running commentary, giving a unified explanation of the Parmenides and integrating it firmly within the context of Plato's metaphysics and methodology. Scolnicov shows that in the Parmenides Plato addresses the most serious challenge to his own philosophy: the monism of Parmenides and the Eleatics. In addition to providing a serious rebuttal to Parmenides, Plato here re-formulates his own theory of forms and participation, arguments that are central to the whole of Platonic thought, and provides these concepts with a rigorous logical and philosophical foundation. In Scolnicov's analysis, the Parmenides emerges as an extension of ideas from Plato's middle dialogues and as an opening to the later dialogues. Scolnicov’s analysis is crisp and lucid, offering a persuasive approach to a complicated dialogue. This translation follows the Greek closely, and the commentary affords the Greekless reader a clear understanding of how Scolnicov’s interpretation emerges from the text. This volume will provide a valuable introduction and framework for understanding a dialogue that continues to generate lively discussion today.
Author : David Darling
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780470307885
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Author : Barbara Sattler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781108477901
This book explores the birth of the scientific understanding of motion in early Greek thought up to Aristotle.
Author : John Lechte
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 0761965351
Companion volume to Lechte's best-selling 50 Key Contemporary Thinkers. Guides readers in understanding society and culture in the twenty-first century. Encyclopedic format covers such topics as cybernetics, quantum theory, ideology, and aesthetics.
Author : R. M. Sainsbury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521896320
A paradox can be defined as an unacceptable conclusion derived by apparently acceptable reasoning from apparently acceptable premises. Many paradoxes raise serious philosophical problems, and they are associated with crises of thought and revolutionary advances. The expanded and revised third edition of this intriguing book considers a range of knotty paradoxes including Zeno's paradoxical claim that the runner can never overtake the tortoise, a new chapter on paradoxes about morals, paradoxes about belief, and hardest of all, paradoxes about truth. The discussion uses a minimum of technicality but also grapples with complicated and difficult considerations, and is accompanied by helpful questions designed to engage the reader with the arguments. The result is not only an explanation of paradoxes but also an excellent introduction to philosophical thinking.
Author : Joseph Mazur
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 0452289173
The fascinating story of an ancient riddle and what it reveals about the nature of time and space Three millennia ago, the Greek philosopher Zeno constructed a series of logical paradoxes to prove that motion is impossible. Today, these paradoxes remain on the cutting edge of our investigations into the fabric of space and time. Zeno's Paradox uses the motion paradox as a jumping-off point for an exploration of the twenty-five-hundred-year quest to uncover the true nature of the universe. From Galileo to Einstein to Stephen Hawking, some of the greatest minds in history have tackled the problem and made spectacular breakthroughs, but through it all, the paradox of motion remains.
Author : Tricia Armstrong
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Creative thinking
ISBN : 9781551381565
Explores the higher-order thinking tools that are essential for students to become effective learners. It includes lessons that encourage students to understand and integrate information so that they can use what they know to solve problems and make decisions.
Author : Craig Callender
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521529670
Why does time seem to flow in one direction? Can we influence the past? Is only the present real? Does relativity conflict with our common understanding of time? Could science do away with time? These questions and others about time are among the most puzzling problems in philosophy and science. In this exciting collection of original articles, eminent philosophers propose novel answers to these and other questions. Based on the latest research in philosophy and physics, these essays will be enjoyable to anyone with a speculative turn of mind.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Margaret Cuonzo
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262525497
An introduction to paradoxes showing that they are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking. Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno's. In this volume in The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Margaret Cuonzo explores paradoxes and the strategies used to solve them. She finds that paradoxes are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking. A paradox can be defined as a set of mutually inconsistent claims, each of which seems true. Paradoxes emerge not just in salons and ivory towers but in everyday life. (An Internet search for “paradox” brings forth a picture of an ashtray with a “no smoking” symbol inscribed on it.) Proposing solutions, Cuonzo writes, is a natural response to paradoxes. She invites us to rethink paradoxes by focusing on strategies for solving them, arguing that there is much to be learned from this, regardless of whether any of the more powerful paradoxes is even capable of solution. Cuonzo offers a catalog of paradox-solving strategies—including the Preemptive-Strike (questioning the paradox itself), the Odd-Guy-Out (calling one of the assumptions into question), and the You-Can't-Get-There-from-Here (denying the validity of the reasoning). She argues that certain types of solutions work better in some contexts than others, and that as paradoxicality increases, the success of certain strategies grows more unlikely. Cuonzo shows that the processes of paradox generation and solution proposal are interesting and important ones. Discovering a paradox leads to advances in knowledge: new science often stems from attempts to solve paradoxes, and the concepts used in the new sciences lead to new paradoxes. As Niels Bohr wrote, “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”
