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Author : Roger Stanley Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
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Author : Roger S. Jones
language : en
Publisher: Plume Books
Release Date : 1983-04-01
Physics As Metaphor written by Roger S. Jones and has been published by Plume Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-04-01 with Science categories.
Argues that objectivity is a myth, and discusses our perceptions of space and time, matter, numbers, death, and consciousness
Physics As A Metaphor
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Author : R. H. Hobart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
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Aspects Of Metaphor In Physics
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Author : Hanna Pulaczewska
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-05-03
Aspects Of Metaphor In Physics written by Hanna Pulaczewska and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
With reference to copious case studies, this book attempts to give a broad and comprehensive view of the multiplicity of forms taken by metaphor in physics. A diachronic presentation of the views hitherto advanced on the role of metaphor in the natural sciences provides an introduction to the crucial issues. By means of a broad definition of metaphor as a lexical, semantic, and conceptual phenomenon, metaphor is identified at various levels of physics discourse: in metatheory and methodology; in the sociology of the origin and evolution of science; in theory and conceptualization, including physics models; in education; and finally in linguistic expression, including terminology. Whereas historians and theoreticians of science reduce the question of metaphor in physics to the question of the role of scientific models, where one area of physics provides concepts and structures for another area, the perspective adopted here is that of cognitive semantics. The study inquires into the way in which concept-formation and terminology in physics avails itself of the metaphoric bent immanent in everyday language, conceptualizing abstract ideas in spatial terms, inanimate things as intelligent, measurable phenomena in terms of the visual. Attention is also given to the way in which metaphoric processes make it possible to integrate new knowledge into old and sometimes obsolete structures rather than eliminating those structures altogether.
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Author : R. H. Hobart
language : en
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Release Date : 1974
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The Machine As Metaphor And Tool
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Author : Hermann Haken
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
The Machine As Metaphor And Tool written by Hermann Haken and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.
The chapters in this book centre around one main theme, the concept of the machine and its use as metaphor in a variety of contexts. This concept is deeply rooted in western culture and is frequently used to interpret complex systems in nature and society. With the advent of electronic computers, the machine metaphor applied to thinking and the brain has becOIne even more pertinent. The idea of a machine has changed over time. In this book these transformations are made trans parent, various aspects of the machine metaphor are discussed and limitations and pitfalls of the metaphor are elaborated. The chapters are written in a non-technical fashion and are accessible to a large readership of scientists and also laymen interested in the scientific per spectives and logical foundations of the machine concept that has been so influential in western thinking. The idea of the book has its origin in a workshop held at the Sci entific Station in Abisko, Sweden, in May 1990, where several of the present authors participated. The meeting was organized and spon sored by the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Re search (FRN). Since 1983, the FRN has actively promoted a series of such annual events at Abisko, all of which have been devoted to the exploration of various aspects of complex systems and their evolution.
Atoms Metaphors And Paradoxes
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Author : Sandro Petruccioli
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-11-23
Atoms Metaphors And Paradoxes written by Sandro Petruccioli and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-23 with Science categories.
This book reexamines the birth of quantum mechanics, in particular examining the development of crucial and original insights of Bohr. In particular, it gives a detailed study of the development and the interpretation given to Bohr's Principle of Correspondence. It also describes the role that this principle played in guiding Bohr's research over the critical period from 1920 to 1927.
Analogies In Physics And Life
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Author : Richard M. Weiner
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2008
Analogies In Physics And Life written by Richard M. Weiner and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Science categories.
Noncommutative geometry is a novel approach which is opening up new possibilities for geometry from a mathematical viewpoint. It is also providing new tools for the investigation of quantum space-time in physics. Recent developments in string theory have supported the idea of quantum spaces, and have strongly stimulated the research in this field. This self-contained volume contains survey lectures and research articles which address these issues and related topics. The book is accessible to both researchers and graduate students beginning to study this subject.
Mathematics As Metaphor
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Author : I͡U. I. Manin
language : en
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Release Date : 2007
Mathematics As Metaphor written by I͡U. I. Manin and has been published by American Mathematical Soc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Mathematics categories.
Includes essays that are grouped in three parts: Mathematics; Mathematics and Physics; and, Language, Consciousness, and Book reviews. This book is suitable for those interested in the philosophy and history of mathematics, physics, and linguistics.
Person In Cosmos
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Author : Kevin O'Shea
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Person In Cosmos written by Kevin O'Shea and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Cosmology categories.
"The intention of this study", writes Father Kevin O'Shea, "is to facilitate the dialogue between physics and theology, by presenting a philosophy that can hear both sides. It will try to do so by standing in the critical, moderate realist tradition of Aquinas, that is, of those who have retrieved his historical positions and as a result are open to new questions in contemporary culture, especially questions about participation, process, and relationship. It will in particular stand in the footsteps of Father Norris Clarke of Fordham University and Father David Burrell of the University of Notre Dame. To enter into dialogue with the physicists, it will attempt to write a minor footnote to the metaphysical text they have given us"."I am happy and privileged to introduce this remarkable book", writes Father Norris Clarke, SJ, a distinguished Jesuit of Fordham University, "not the least because it has made such creative use of my own philosophical explorations in creative retrieval of Thomistic metaphysics. Person in Cosmos takes on the daring project of bringing together for mutual illumination the world vision of modern science (in its larger lines, of course) and that of traditional Christian theology, mediated by a realistic, streamlined, Thomistically-inspired philosophy. Except for a small number of creative Christian thinkers, Christian theology in the past has gone along its own way, with its own internal dialogue, quite independent of and unconcerned with the vast developments of modern science, in particular, physics and biology. But this is not a satisfactory situation...and Father O'Shea attempts to set things aright".