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The future of post-human geology : a preface to a new theory of statics and dynamics /
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| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge International Science Pub.,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part One: Introduction; Part Two: Statics; Part Three: Dynamics; Part Four: Conclusion; TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; PART ONE Introduction; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
- THE USE OF GEOLOGY; Two Views in Contention; Geology and Geosciences; Statics and Dynamics in Geology; Statics; Dynamics; The Wide Variety of Geological Methods; Field Methods; Laboratory Methods; The Theoretical Debate; The Catastrophe Argument; The Uniformity Argument; The Revision Argument; The Resettlement Argument; The Resettlement Theory of Geology; Theory and Meta-Theory.
- A Unified Theory of EverythingThe Logic of Existential Dialectics; The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics); The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodologyand Ontologic); The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics); The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or ItsOntopragmatics); Sophisticated Methodological Holism; Chapter Outline; Some Clarifications; In Conversation with My Previous Books; Case Studies and Examples; Detailed Analysis versus Overall Synthesis; Two Distinctive Features of Using Quotations; The Use of Neologisms.
- PART TWO StaticsCHAPTER 2. STATICS AND ITS CONTINGENCY; The Durability of Statics; Statics and the Mind; Gestalt Psychology, and the Perception of Geological Structures; Cemetery Rocks, and the Geology of Fear; Statics and Nature; The Debate on Tectonic Plates; The Contention on Rock Classification; Statics and Society; Economic Geology, and the Social Use of Resources; Hydrogeology, and the Technological Limits in Society; Statics and Culture; Fieldwork, and the Methodological Culture in Geology; Geology, Paleontology, and the Classificatory Tradition; The Changeability of Statics.
- PART THREE DynamicsCHAPTER 3. DYNAMICS AND ITS RESTRICTION; The Strength of Dynamics; Dynamics and the Mind; Geology, and the Controversy about Feminine Intuition; Geology, and the Rediscovery of the Mind; Dynamics and Nature; Volcanic Ejection, and Its Impact; Earthquake, and Its Power; Dynamics and Society; Technology, and the Debate on Relative vs. Absolute Dating; Engineering Geology, and the Protection of Life and Property; Dynamics and Culture; Historical Geology, and the Nature of Cultural Contingency; Geological Time, and the Use/Misuse of Metaphors; The Weakness of Dynamics.
- PART FOUR ConclusionCHAPTER 4. CONCLUSION
- THE FUTURE OF GEOLOGY; Beyond Uniformity, Catastrophe, and Reivison; 1st Thesis: The Absoluteness-Relativeness Principle; 2nd Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle; 3rd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle; 4th Thesis: The Preciseness-Vagueness Principle; 5th Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle; 6th Thesis: The Openness-Hiddenness Principle; 7th Thesis: The Denseness-Emptiness Principle; 8th Thesis: The Slowness-Quickness Principle; 9th Thesis: The Expansion-Contraction Principle.