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The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time : a Proposal in Natural Philosophy.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin argue for a revolution in our cosmological ideas. Ideal for non-scientists, physicists and cosmologists.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Unger, Roberto Mangabeira
Otros Autores: Smolin, Lee, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; The nature and scope of this work; Part I Roberto Mangabeira Unger; 1 The science of the one universe in time ; The singular existence of the universe; The inclusive reality of time; The selective realism of mathematics; The first cosmological fallacy; The second cosmological fallacy; Causality without laws; 2 The context and consequences of the argument ; The argument and recent physics and cosmology; The argument and the physics of the first half of the twentieth century; The argument and natural history. 
505 8 |a The argument and social and historical studyReinventing natural philosophy; What is at stake; 3 The singular existence of the universe ; The conception of the singular existence of the universe introduced; Arguments for the singular existence of the universe; Implications for the agenda of cosmology; The finite and the infinite at the beginning of the universe; The initial conditions of the history of the universe; The unexplained constants of nature; 4 The inclusive reality of time ; The problem presented: how much of nature exists in time?; The argument in science and natural philosophy. 
505 8 |a Time as the transformation of transformationAttributes of time: non-emergent, global, irreversible, and continuous; The proto-ontological assumptions of this view of time; The idea of the inclusive reality of time restated; From being to becoming; 5 The mutability of the laws of nature ; Changing laws; The conundrum of the meta-laws; The problem of causation in the early universe revisited; The best hope for resolving the conundrum of the meta-laws; From speculative conception to empirical inquiry; Implications of the inclusive reality of time for some fundamental ideas. 
505 8 |a 6 The selective realism of mathematics The problem; Mathematics as discovery and mathematics as invention; The attributes of mathematics; A natural-evolutionary conjecture; The history of mathematics reconsidered: soaring above the world without escaping it; The history of mathematics reconsidered: right and wrong in Hilbert's program; A deflationary and naturalistic view of mathematics; Part II Lee Smolin; 1 Cosmology in crisis ; The crisis introduced; Temporal naturalism; Naturalism is an ethical stance; 2 Principles for a cosmological theory ; The roots of relationalism. 
505 8 |a The Newtonian paradigmThe failure of the Newtonian paradigm when applied to cosmology; The failure of the Newtonian paradigm to satisfy the principles for a cosmological theory; The failure of the Newtonian paradigm for elementary events; Reductionism and its limits; The uniqueness of fundamental events; Relationalism and its limits: relational versus intrinsic properties; Two relational paths to general relativity: Einstein and shape dynamics; Relational purism; Impure relationalism: a role for intrinsic properties; Dynamical pairings and relational versus intrinsic properties. 
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