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 |
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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 |
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Collected Works of C.G. Jung . Volume 14 Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 14 ; Mysterium Coniunctionis / / C. G. Jung; Gerhard Adler, R. F.C. Hull |
Autore | Jung Carl G. |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1432 p.) |
Disciplina | 273.2 |
Collana | Collected Works of C.G. Jung |
Soggetto topico | Alchemy |
Soggetto non controllato |
Adam Kadmon
Albertus Magnus Alchemical symbol Alchemy All things Allegory Allusion Ambiguity Analogy Angelus Silesius Anima mundi Antimony Apotheosis Apuleius Archetype Asclepius Astrology Attis Aurora consurgens Avicenna Azoth Christianity Chthonic Church Fathers Cognomen Concupiscence Consciousness Consummation Deity Demiurge Democritus Dismemberment Emblem Emerald Tablet Explanation Fairy tale Filius philosophorum Firmament God the Father God Good and evil Hermes Trismegistus Illustration Incarnation Incorruptibility Individuation Kabbalah Kenosis Literature Manichaeism Meister Eckhart Moralia Multitude Mysterium Coniunctionis Naassenes Neurosis Nicolas Flamel Nigredo Nous Novum Ostanes Parable Paracelsus Phenomenon Philosopher Philosophy Physis Prima materia Pseudonym Psychic Psychology and Alchemy Psychology of the Unconscious Psychology Putrefaction Pythagoreanism Religion Rite Rubedo Simon Magus Spirituality Sulfur Symptom The Other Hand The Philosopher The Various Theology Thomas Aquinas Thought Tincture (heraldry) Treatise Turba Unconsciousness V Vinegar Wickedness World Writing Yesod Yin and yang Zohar |
ISBN |
0-691-09766-6
1-4008-5085-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- EDITORIAL NOTE -- TRANSLATOR'S NOTE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF PLATES -- FOREWORD -- I. THE COMPONENTS OF THE CONIUNCTIO -- II. THE PARADOXA -- III. THE PERSONIFICATION OF THE OPPOSITES -- IV. REX AND REGINA -- V. ADAM AND EVE -- VI. THE CONJUNCTION -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- CORRELATION OF PARAGRAPH NUMBERS -- Backmatter |
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Collected Works of C.G. Jung . Volume 14 Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 14 ; Mysterium Coniunctionis / / C. G. Jung; Gerhard Adler, R. F.C. Hull |
Autore | Jung Carl G. |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1432 p.) |
Disciplina | 273.2 |
Collana | Collected Works of C.G. Jung |
Soggetto topico | Alchemy |
Soggetto non controllato |
Adam Kadmon
Albertus Magnus Alchemical symbol Alchemy All things Allegory Allusion Ambiguity Analogy Angelus Silesius Anima mundi Antimony Apotheosis Apuleius Archetype Asclepius Astrology Attis Aurora consurgens Avicenna Azoth Christianity Chthonic Church Fathers Cognomen Concupiscence Consciousness Consummation Deity Demiurge Democritus Dismemberment Emblem Emerald Tablet Explanation Fairy tale Filius philosophorum Firmament God the Father God Good and evil Hermes Trismegistus Illustration Incarnation Incorruptibility Individuation Kabbalah Kenosis Literature Manichaeism Meister Eckhart Moralia Multitude Mysterium Coniunctionis Naassenes Neurosis Nicolas Flamel Nigredo Nous Novum Ostanes Parable Paracelsus Phenomenon Philosopher Philosophy Physis Prima materia Pseudonym Psychic Psychology and Alchemy Psychology of the Unconscious Psychology Putrefaction Pythagoreanism Religion Rite Rubedo Simon Magus Spirituality Sulfur Symptom The Other Hand The Philosopher The Various Theology Thomas Aquinas Thought Tincture (heraldry) Treatise Turba Unconsciousness V Vinegar Wickedness World Writing Yesod Yin and yang Zohar |
ISBN |
0-691-09766-6
1-4008-5085-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- EDITORIAL NOTE -- TRANSLATOR'S NOTE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF PLATES -- FOREWORD -- I. THE COMPONENTS OF THE CONIUNCTIO -- II. THE PARADOXA -- III. THE PERSONIFICATION OF THE OPPOSITES -- IV. REX AND REGINA -- V. ADAM AND EVE -- VI. THE CONJUNCTION -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- CORRELATION OF PARAGRAPH NUMBERS -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814819203321 |
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Explaining the cosmos [[electronic resource] ] : the Ionian tradition of scientific philosophy / / Daniel W. Graham |
Autore | Graham Daniel W |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (363 p.) |
Disciplina | 182.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, Ancient
Pre-Socratic philosophers |
Soggetto non controllato |
Absolute (philosophy)
Alcmaeon of Croton Alexander of Aphrodisias Allusion Ambiguity Analogy Anaxagoras Anaximander Anaximenes Antidosis Apeiron (cosmology) Aristotle Atomism Causality Chemical element Chemical formula Classical element Coeus Concept Contradiction Cosmogony Cratylus Crius Cronus Democritus Diogenes of Apollonia Dualism (philosophy of mind) Dualism Eleatics Emergence Empedocles Empirical evidence Essence Existence Explanandum Explanation Explication Fallacy First principle Four causes Greek Philosophy Hippias Hypothesis Ignoratio elenchi Inference Inquiry Instance (computer science) Isocrates Leucippus Lucretius Material monism Meteorology Monism Multitude Mythology Natural philosophy Natural science On Generation and Corruption On the Heavens Ontology Ousia Parmenides Peripatetic school Phenomenon Philolaus Philosopher Philosophical theory Philosophy Pre-Socratic philosophy Premise Principle Process philosophy Prose Pythagoreanism Quantity Rarefaction Reality Reason Science Scientific method Scientist Sophist Substance theory Teleology Test theory The Philosopher Theogony Theophrastus Theoretical physics Theory of Forms Theory of change Theory Thomas Kuhn Thought Timaeus (dialogue) Trace Amounts Treatise Unity of opposites World view Xenophanes |
ISBN |
1-282-45828-0
9786612458286 1-4008-2745-0 |
Classificazione |
08.21
08.35 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Brief References -- 1. The Ionian Program -- 2. Anaximander's Principles -- 3. Anaximenes' Theory of Change -- 4. The Generating Substance Theory as an Explanatory Hypothesis -- 5. Heraclitus's Criticism of Ionian Philosophy -- 6. Parmenides' Criticism of Ionian Philosophy -- 7. Anaxagoras and Empedocles: Eleatic Pluralists -- 8. The Elemental Substance Theory as an Explanatory Hypothesis -- 9. The Atomist Reform -- 10. Diogenes of Apollonia and Material Monism -- 11. The Ionian Legacy -- References -- Index Locorum -- General Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781050803321 |
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Explaining the cosmos [[electronic resource] ] : the Ionian tradition of scientific philosophy / / Daniel W. Graham |
Autore | Graham Daniel W |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (363 p.) |
Disciplina | 182.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, Ancient
Pre-Socratic philosophers |
Soggetto non controllato |
Absolute (philosophy)
Alcmaeon of Croton Alexander of Aphrodisias Allusion Ambiguity Analogy Anaxagoras Anaximander Anaximenes Antidosis Apeiron (cosmology) Aristotle Atomism Causality Chemical element Chemical formula Classical element Coeus Concept Contradiction Cosmogony Cratylus Crius Cronus Democritus Diogenes of Apollonia Dualism (philosophy of mind) Dualism Eleatics Emergence Empedocles Empirical evidence Essence Existence Explanandum Explanation Explication Fallacy First principle Four causes Greek Philosophy Hippias Hypothesis Ignoratio elenchi Inference Inquiry Instance (computer science) Isocrates Leucippus Lucretius Material monism Meteorology Monism Multitude Mythology Natural philosophy Natural science On Generation and Corruption On the Heavens Ontology Ousia Parmenides Peripatetic school Phenomenon Philolaus Philosopher Philosophical theory Philosophy Pre-Socratic philosophy Premise Principle Process philosophy Prose Pythagoreanism Quantity Rarefaction Reality Reason Science Scientific method Scientist Sophist Substance theory Teleology Test theory The Philosopher Theogony Theophrastus Theoretical physics Theory of Forms Theory of change Theory Thomas Kuhn Thought Timaeus (dialogue) Trace Amounts Treatise Unity of opposites World view Xenophanes |
ISBN |
1-282-45828-0
9786612458286 1-4008-2745-0 |
Classificazione |
08.21
08.35 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Brief References -- 1. The Ionian Program -- 2. Anaximander's Principles -- 3. Anaximenes' Theory of Change -- 4. The Generating Substance Theory as an Explanatory Hypothesis -- 5. Heraclitus's Criticism of Ionian Philosophy -- 6. Parmenides' Criticism of Ionian Philosophy -- 7. Anaxagoras and Empedocles: Eleatic Pluralists -- 8. The Elemental Substance Theory as an Explanatory Hypothesis -- 9. The Atomist Reform -- 10. Diogenes of Apollonia and Material Monism -- 11. The Ionian Legacy -- References -- Index Locorum -- General Index |
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In search of Pythagoreanism [[electronic resource] ] : Pythagoreanism as an historiographical category / / Gabriele Cornelli |
Autore | Cornelli Gabriele |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, : De Gruyter, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
Disciplina | 182/.2 |
Collana |
Studia Praesocratica
Studia praesocratica |
Soggetto topico | PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical |
Soggetto non controllato |
Historiography of Ancient Thought
History of Ancient Philosophy Presocratics Pythagoras Pythagoreanism |
ISBN | 3-11-030650-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 History of criticism: from Zeller to Kingsley -- 2 Pythagoreanism as a historiographical category -- 3 Immortality of the soul and metempsýchōsis -- 4 Numbers -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Topics -- Index of Passages -- Index of Names |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779732103321 |
Cornelli Gabriele
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In search of Pythagoreanism : Pythagoreanism as an historiographical category / / Gabriele Cornelli |
Autore | Cornelli Gabriele |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, : De Gruyter, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
Disciplina |
182/.2
182.2 |
Collana |
Studia Praesocratica
Studia praesocratica |
Soggetto topico | PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical |
Soggetto non controllato |
Historiography of Ancient Thought
History of Ancient Philosophy Presocratics Pythagoras Pythagoreanism |
ISBN | 3-11-030650-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 History of criticism: from Zeller to Kingsley -- 2 Pythagoreanism as a historiographical category -- 3 Immortality of the soul and metempsýchōsis -- 4 Numbers -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Topics -- Index of Passages -- Index of Names |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810092803321 |
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On Pythagoreanism / / edited by Gabriele Cornelli, Richard McKirahan and Constantinos Macris |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (552 p.) |
Disciplina | 182/.2 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
CornelliGabriele
MacrisConstantinos McKirahanRichard D |
Collana | Studia praesocratica |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, Ancient
Pythagoras and Pythagorean school Pythagorean theorem |
Soggetto non controllato |
Presocratics
Pythagoras Pythagoreanism |
ISBN | 3-11-031850-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Pythagoreanism as an historiographical category: historical and methodological notes -- Approaching Pythagoras of Samos: Ritual, Natural Philosophy and Politics -- When Pythagoras was still Living in Samos (Heraclitus, frg. 129) -- The Pythagorean Akousmata and Early Pythagoreanism -- Pythagoras Homericus: Performance as Hermeneutic Horizon to Interpret Pythagorean Tradition -- Orphics and Pythagoreans: the Greek perspective -- On the origin of the Orphic-Pythagorean notion of the immortality of the soul -- Philolaus on Number -- Archytas and the duplication of the cube -- Plato and the Pythagoreans -- Philolaus and Plato on method, measure and pleasure -- Epicharmus and the plagiarism of Plato -- Pythagorean Number Doctrine in the Academy -- Early Pythagoreans in Aristotle’s account -- The Pythagorean Hypomnemata reported by Alexander Polyhistor in Diogenes Laertius (8.25–33): a proposal for reading -- Eudorus of Alexandria and the ‘Pythagorean’ pseudepigrapha -- Pythagoreanism in late antique Philosophy, after Proclus -- Ficino’s Pythagoras -- A modern approximation to Pythagoreanism: Boscovich’s “point atomism” -- Curricula -- Index of Topics -- Index locorum -- Index nominum |
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Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013] | ||
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On Pythagoreanism / / edited by Gabriele Cornelli, Richard McKirahan and Constantinos Macris |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (552 p.) |
Disciplina | 182/.2 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
CornelliGabriele
MacrisConstantinos McKirahanRichard D |
Collana | Studia praesocratica |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, Ancient
Pythagoras and Pythagorean school Pythagorean theorem |
Soggetto non controllato |
Presocratics
Pythagoras Pythagoreanism |
ISBN | 3-11-031850-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Pythagoreanism as an historiographical category: historical and methodological notes -- Approaching Pythagoras of Samos: Ritual, Natural Philosophy and Politics -- When Pythagoras was still Living in Samos (Heraclitus, frg. 129) -- The Pythagorean Akousmata and Early Pythagoreanism -- Pythagoras Homericus: Performance as Hermeneutic Horizon to Interpret Pythagorean Tradition -- Orphics and Pythagoreans: the Greek perspective -- On the origin of the Orphic-Pythagorean notion of the immortality of the soul -- Philolaus on Number -- Archytas and the duplication of the cube -- Plato and the Pythagoreans -- Philolaus and Plato on method, measure and pleasure -- Epicharmus and the plagiarism of Plato -- Pythagorean Number Doctrine in the Academy -- Early Pythagoreans in Aristotle’s account -- The Pythagorean Hypomnemata reported by Alexander Polyhistor in Diogenes Laertius (8.25–33): a proposal for reading -- Eudorus of Alexandria and the ‘Pythagorean’ pseudepigrapha -- Pythagoreanism in late antique Philosophy, after Proclus -- Ficino’s Pythagoras -- A modern approximation to Pythagoreanism: Boscovich’s “point atomism” -- Curricula -- Index of Topics -- Index locorum -- Index nominum |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820987503321 |
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