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Physics and Literature : Concepts - Transfer - Aestheticization /

Physics and Literature is a unique collaboration between physicists, literary scholars, and philosophers, the first collection of essays to examine together how science and literature, beneath their practical differences, share core dimensions - forms of questioning, thinking, discovering and commun...

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Otros Autores: Bergengruen, Maximilian (Contribuidor), Gencarelli, Angela (Contribuidor), Heydenreich, Aura (Contribuidor, Editor ), Kasper, Lutz (Contribuidor), Kompa, Nikola (Contribuidor), Labinger, Jay A. (Contribuidor), Mairhofer, Lukas (Contribuidor), Malinowski, Bernadette (Contribuidor), McGovern, Ignatius (Contribuidor), Mecke, Klaus (Contribuidor, Editor ), Murphy, Kieran (Contribuidor), Mühr, Stephan (Contribuidor), Plotnitsky, Arkady (Contribuidor), Thielmann, Winfried (Contribuidor), Vanderbeke, Dirk (Contribuidor), Vignale, Giovanni (Contribuidor), Özelt, Clemens (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]
Colección:Literatur- und Naturwissenschaften, 3
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Epistemic Functions of Narration and Metaphor in Science
  • Insight by Metaphor
  • The Epistemic Role of Metaphor in Science
  • Epistemic Narrativity in Albert Einstein's Treatise on Special Relativity
  • Albert Einstein's "Physics and Reality" and "The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies"
  • Physics and Fiction
  • Part II: Concepts: Formation and Transfer
  • Concept Formation in Physics from a Linguist's Perspective
  • Everything in Context
  • Induction after Electromagnetism
  • The Paradoxical Interplay of Exactitude and Indefiniteness
  • The Horizon of the Horizon
  • Interference
  • Part III: Aestheticization and Literarization of Physics
  • Literary Epistemology
  • The "Poetic Element" of Science
  • Possible Worlds
  • The Physics of Metaphysics
  • Establishing Evidence through a Shift in Viewpoint
  • Narrating Science
  • Physics for Non-physicists
  • The Making of A Mystic Dream of 4
  • Attachment
  • Author and Editor Directory
  • Index