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The blind spot [[electronic resource] ] : science and the crisis of uncertainty / / William Byers
| The blind spot [[electronic resource] ] : science and the crisis of uncertainty / / William Byers |
| Autore | Byers William |
| Edizione | [Course Book] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
| Disciplina | 500 |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Social aspects
Uncertainty (Information theory) |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Acknowledgment (creative arts and sciences)
Algorithm Ambiguity Analogy Approximation Axiom Axiomatic system Basic research Big O notation Calculation Certainty Chaos theory Circumference Computation Concept Conjecture Consciousness Consistency Contingency (philosophy) Continuous function Continuum hypothesis Contradiction Counting David Bohm Dynamism (metaphysics) Emergence Euclidean geometry Explanation Feeling Fermat's Last Theorem Geometry Gestalt psychology Gregory Chaitin Gödel's incompleteness theorems Human behavior Human intelligence Hypothesis Ideology Inference Integer Irrational number Learning Logic Logical reasoning Mathematician Mathematics Measurement Methodology Modernity Molecule Natural number Nature Paradigm shift Paradox Participant Phenomenon Philosopher Philosophy of mathematics Philosophy of science Philosophy Platonism Prediction Principle Probability Pythagoreanism Qualitative property Quantification (science) Quantity Quantum mechanics Randomness Rational number Rationality Real number Reality Reason Reductionism Relationship between religion and science Result Science Scientific method Scientific progress Scientific theory Scientist Self-reference Set theory Special case Subatomic particle Subjectivity Suggestion Technology The Philosopher Theorem Theoretical physics Theory of everything Theory Thomas Kuhn Thought Uncertainty Universality (philosophy) Writing |
| ISBN |
1-283-00150-0
9786613001504 1-4008-3815-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: The Revelation of Uncertainty -- 1. The Blind Spot -- 2. The Blind Spot Revealed -- 3. Certainty or Wonder? -- 4. A World in Crisis! -- 5. Ambiguity -- 6. Self-Reference: The Human Element in Science -- 7. The Mystery of Number -- 8. Science as the Ambiguous Search for Unity -- 9. The Still Point -- 10. Conclusion: Living in a World of Uncertainty -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781106903321 |
Byers William
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| Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The blind spot [[electronic resource] ] : science and the crisis of uncertainty / / William Byers
| The blind spot [[electronic resource] ] : science and the crisis of uncertainty / / William Byers |
| Autore | Byers William |
| Edizione | [Course Book] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
| Disciplina | 500 |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Social aspects
Uncertainty (Information theory) |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Acknowledgment (creative arts and sciences)
Algorithm Ambiguity Analogy Approximation Axiom Axiomatic system Basic research Big O notation Calculation Certainty Chaos theory Circumference Computation Concept Conjecture Consciousness Consistency Contingency (philosophy) Continuous function Continuum hypothesis Contradiction Counting David Bohm Dynamism (metaphysics) Emergence Euclidean geometry Explanation Feeling Fermat's Last Theorem Geometry Gestalt psychology Gregory Chaitin Gödel's incompleteness theorems Human behavior Human intelligence Hypothesis Ideology Inference Integer Irrational number Learning Logic Logical reasoning Mathematician Mathematics Measurement Methodology Modernity Molecule Natural number Nature Paradigm shift Paradox Participant Phenomenon Philosopher Philosophy of mathematics Philosophy of science Philosophy Platonism Prediction Principle Probability Pythagoreanism Qualitative property Quantification (science) Quantity Quantum mechanics Randomness Rational number Rationality Real number Reality Reason Reductionism Relationship between religion and science Result Science Scientific method Scientific progress Scientific theory Scientist Self-reference Set theory Special case Subatomic particle Subjectivity Suggestion Technology The Philosopher Theorem Theoretical physics Theory of everything Theory Thomas Kuhn Thought Uncertainty Universality (philosophy) Writing |
| ISBN |
1-283-00150-0
9786613001504 1-4008-3815-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: The Revelation of Uncertainty -- 1. The Blind Spot -- 2. The Blind Spot Revealed -- 3. Certainty or Wonder? -- 4. A World in Crisis! -- 5. Ambiguity -- 6. Self-Reference: The Human Element in Science -- 7. The Mystery of Number -- 8. Science as the Ambiguous Search for Unity -- 9. The Still Point -- 10. Conclusion: Living in a World of Uncertainty -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822780703321 |
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Byers William
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| Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Jonathan Edwards' philosophy of history [[electronic resource] ] : the re-enchantment of the world in the Age of Enlightenment / / Avihu Zakai
| Jonathan Edwards' philosophy of history [[electronic resource] ] : the re-enchantment of the world in the Age of Enlightenment / / Avihu Zakai |
| Autore | Zakai Avihu |
| Edizione | [Course Book] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
| Disciplina | 231.7/6/092 |
| Soggetto topico |
History - Philosophy
Enlightenment |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Antichrist
Apostasy Arianism Arminianism Calvinism Christ Christian Church Christian ethics Christian revival Christian theology Christian Christianity Christocentric Christology Church Fathers Constantine the Great and Christianity Consummation Contingency (philosophy) Conversion of the Jews Cotton Mather Deism Deity Disenchantment Divination Divine grace Divine providence Doctrine Dynamism (metaphysics) Early modern period Eschatology Ethics First Great Awakening George Whitefield God Good and evil Great Awakening Great chain of being H. Richard Niebuhr Herbert Butterfield Heresy Historical criticism Historiography Ideology Illustration Immanence Infidel John Calvin John Foxe Justification (theology) Major religious groups Manifestation of God Materialism Mechanical philosophy Methodism Millennialism Miracle Morality Natural philosophy Natural religion Natural theology Old Testament Omnipotence Omniscience Orthodoxy Pastor Perry Miller Philip Melanchthon Philosopher Philosophical theology Philosophy of history Philosophy Pietism Piety Plan of salvation (Latter Day Saints) Postmillennialism Potentiality and actuality Prophecy Protestantism Puritans Religion Religious conversion Religious experience Religious text Sacred history Salvation History Satan Second Coming Second Great Awakening Secularization Sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Socinianism Teleology The City of God (book) Theology of the Cross Theology Theory Universal history World Writing |
| ISBN |
1-282-08774-6
9786612087745 1-4008-2560-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: The American Augustine -- Edwards's Life of the Mind -- One. A Short Intellectual Biography -- The Soul -- Two. Young Man Edwards: Religious Conversion and Theologia Gloriae -- Space -- Three. Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning: Edwards and the Reenchantment of the World -- Time -- Four. The Ideological Origins of Edwards's Philosophy of History -- Five. God's Great Design in History: The Formation of Edwards's Redemptive Mode of Historical Thought -- Six. Edwards's Philosophy of History: The History of the Work of Redemption -- Seven. "Chariots of Salvation": The Apocalypse and Eschatology of the Great Awakening -- Ethics -- Eight. Edwards and the Enlightenment Debate on Moral Philosophy -- Epilogue. Edwards and American Protestant Tradition -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785367303321 |
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Zakai Avihu
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| Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Jonathan Edwards' philosophy of history [[electronic resource] ] : the re-enchantment of the world in the Age of Enlightenment / / Avihu Zakai
| Jonathan Edwards' philosophy of history [[electronic resource] ] : the re-enchantment of the world in the Age of Enlightenment / / Avihu Zakai |
| Autore | Zakai Avihu |
| Edizione | [Course Book] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
| Disciplina | 231.7/6/092 |
| Soggetto topico |
History - Philosophy
Enlightenment |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Antichrist
Apostasy Arianism Arminianism Calvinism Christ Christian Church Christian ethics Christian revival Christian theology Christian Christianity Christocentric Christology Church Fathers Constantine the Great and Christianity Consummation Contingency (philosophy) Conversion of the Jews Cotton Mather Deism Deity Disenchantment Divination Divine grace Divine providence Doctrine Dynamism (metaphysics) Early modern period Eschatology Ethics First Great Awakening George Whitefield God Good and evil Great Awakening Great chain of being H. Richard Niebuhr Herbert Butterfield Heresy Historical criticism Historiography Ideology Illustration Immanence Infidel John Calvin John Foxe Justification (theology) Major religious groups Manifestation of God Materialism Mechanical philosophy Methodism Millennialism Miracle Morality Natural philosophy Natural religion Natural theology Old Testament Omnipotence Omniscience Orthodoxy Pastor Perry Miller Philip Melanchthon Philosopher Philosophical theology Philosophy of history Philosophy Pietism Piety Plan of salvation (Latter Day Saints) Postmillennialism Potentiality and actuality Prophecy Protestantism Puritans Religion Religious conversion Religious experience Religious text Sacred history Salvation History Satan Second Coming Second Great Awakening Secularization Sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Socinianism Teleology The City of God (book) Theology of the Cross Theology Theory Universal history World Writing |
| ISBN |
1-282-08774-6
9786612087745 1-4008-2560-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: The American Augustine -- Edwards's Life of the Mind -- One. A Short Intellectual Biography -- The Soul -- Two. Young Man Edwards: Religious Conversion and Theologia Gloriae -- Space -- Three. Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning: Edwards and the Reenchantment of the World -- Time -- Four. The Ideological Origins of Edwards's Philosophy of History -- Five. God's Great Design in History: The Formation of Edwards's Redemptive Mode of Historical Thought -- Six. Edwards's Philosophy of History: The History of the Work of Redemption -- Seven. "Chariots of Salvation": The Apocalypse and Eschatology of the Great Awakening -- Ethics -- Eight. Edwards and the Enlightenment Debate on Moral Philosophy -- Epilogue. Edwards and American Protestant Tradition -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809415803321 |
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Zakai Avihu
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| Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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