Of Time, Passion, and Knowledge /

"Only a wayfarer born under unruly stars would attempt to put into practice in our epoch of proliferating knowledge the Heraclitean dictum that `men who love wisdom must be inquirers into very many things indeed.'" Thus begins this remarkable interdisciplinary study of time by a maste...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fraser, Julius Thomas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Time.
SCIENCE / History.
Absolute elsewhere.
Acausal connectedness.
Adaptation.
Age of the universe.
Antinomies of time.
Bayes's theorem.
Beginnings of time.
Biogenesis.
Calendars.
Chaos vs. conflict.
Chronogenic localization.
Clocks.
Coital distribution.
Connectedness, noncausal.
Countercultures.
Dating techniques.
Division of labor.
Ecology/world-views.
Engrams.
Eotemporal beginnings/endings.
Epigenesis/preformation.
Existential tension.
Existentialism.
Factuality.
Final causation.
Flight from time.
Frankenstein syndrome.
Gauss-Robertson program.
General systems theory.
Goal-seeking behavior.
Hallucination.
Heavenly Clockwork.
Hebrew covenant.
Homeostasis.
Iconology of time.
Incompleteness theorem.
Intentionality.
Jainism and time.
Large numbers, laws of.
Lee effect.
Mach's principle.
Mathematization of science.
Maxwell's equations.
Menstrual periods.
Motion picture.
Mystical experience.
National socialism.
Natural selection.
Nomogenesis.
Nuclear gyroscopes/ inertia.
Olber's paradox.
Orphism.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CAPTION TO THE PAPERBACK COVER
  • CONTENTS
  • THE ARGUMENTS OF TIME. Foreword to the Second Edition
  • ASCENT-BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION
  • PART ONE The Glass Wall
  • I THE INTELLECTUAL QUEST
  • II THE EMPIRICAL SEARCH
  • III THE SEEKER
  • PART TWO Images in Heaven and on Earth
  • IV THE ROOTS OF TIME IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD
  • V TIME CONTAINED: COSMOLOGIES
  • VI TIME EXTENDED: LIFE
  • PART THREE The Mind of the Matter
  • VII THE ORGAN OF TIME SENSE
  • VIII OUT OF THE DEPTHS
  • PART FOUR Collective Greatness
  • IX EPISTEMOLOGY AND THE TRUE
  • X RELIGION, POLITICS, AND THE GOOD
  • XI ARTS, LETTERS, AND THE BEAUTIFUL
  • XII TIME AS CONFLICT
  • Abbreviations for Works Frequently Quoted
  • Notes and References
  • AUTHOR INDEX
  • SUBJECT INDEX

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