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Beyond cosmology to post-cosmology : a preface to a new theory of different worlds /
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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:
- TABLES; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; CONTENTS; PART ONE Introduction; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION-THE AWE OF THE UNIVERSE; The Euphoric Framing of a Worldview; Cosmology vs. Cosmogony; The Different Conceptions of the Universe; Some Deep Questions in Cosmology; The Theoretical Debate; The Scientific Argument; The Religious Argument; The Metaphysical Argument; The Esoteric Argument; The Post-Cosmological Argument; The Theory of Post-Cosmology; Theory and Meta-Theory; A Unified Theory of Everything; The Logic of Existential Dialectics.
- The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics)The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodologyand Ontologic); The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or ItsOntopragmatics); Sophisticated Methodological Holism; Chapter Outline; Some Clarifications; PART TWO The Contested Beginnings; CHAPTER 2 THE UNIVERSE AND ITS CONTESTED BEGINNINGS; The Persuasion of Its Contested Beginnings; Its Contested Beginnings-and the Mind; Acosmism, and the Illusion in the Creation of the Universe; Idealism, the Mind, and the Problem of Universals; Its Contested Beginnings-and Nature.
- The Big Bang Theory, and the Pre-Big Bang AlternativesIts Contested Beginnings-and Society; Earth-Centric Cosmology, and the Politics of the Church; Correlative Cosmology, and Empire Building; Its Contested Beginnings-and Culture; Theology, and the Cosmological Argument; Hylomorphism, Ethics, and the Teleology of the Universe; The Questionability of Its Contested Beginnings; PART THREE The Speculative Ends; CHAPTER 3 THE UNIVERSE AND ITS SPECULATIVE ENDS; The Wonder of Its Speculative Ends; Its Speculative Ends-and the Mind; Involution, the Mind, and the Cosmic Return to the Absolute.
- The Esoteric Seven, and the Spiritual Evolution of the UniverseIts Speculative Ends-and Nature; The Scientific Debate about the Ultimate Fate of the Universe; Its Speculative Ends-and Society; Heaven's Gate, the End of the Earth, and Cult Suicide; MRTCG, Apocalypticism, and Doomsday Deaths; Its Speculative Ends-and Culture; Eschatology, the End of the World, and Religion; The Controversy of Its Speculative Ends; PART FOUR Conclusion; CHAPTER 4 CONCLUSION-THE FUTURE OF COSMOLOGY; Beyond the Contested Beginnings and the Speculative Ends; Other Relevant Principles.
- 1st Thesis: The Absoluteness-Relativeness Principle2nd Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle; 3rd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle; 4rd 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; 10th Thesis: The Convention-3ovelty Principle; 11th Thesis: The Evolution-Transformation Principle.