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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 | ||
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Nicole Oresme, Questiones in Meteorologica de ultima lectura, recensio parisiensis : Study of the Manuscript Tradition and Critical Edition of Books I-II.10 / / Nicole Oresme ; Aurora Panzica, editor
| Nicole Oresme, Questiones in Meteorologica de ultima lectura, recensio parisiensis : Study of the Manuscript Tradition and Critical Edition of Books I-II.10 / / Nicole Oresme ; Aurora Panzica, editor |
| Autore | Oresme Nicole <approximately 1320-1382, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Brill, 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 290 pages) |
| Disciplina | 551.5 |
| Collana | Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science |
| Soggetto topico | Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) |
| Soggetto non controllato | Philosophy of science |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The strange case of the second redaction of Oresme's Questions on Meteorology -- The manuscript tradition of the second redaction of Nicole Oresme's Questions on Meteorology : manuscript descriptions and a study of their relationships -- Nicole Oresme, Questiones in Meteorologica de ultima lectura, recensio parisiensis. Liber I ; Liber II. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Nicole Oresme, Questiones in Meteorologica de ultima lectura, recensio parisiensis |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910490028503321 |
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Oresme Nicole <approximately 1320-1382, >
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| Brill, 2021 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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