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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 |
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| Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 | ||
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Synchronicity : An Acausal Connecting Principle. (From Vol. 8. of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung) / / C. G. Jung
| Synchronicity : An Acausal Connecting Principle. (From Vol. 8. of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung) / / C. G. Jung |
| Autore | Jung C. G. |
| Edizione | [With a New foreword by Sonu Shamdasani] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2012] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (153 p.) |
| Disciplina | 133.8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HullR. F.C
ShamdasaniSonu |
| Collana | Jung Extracts |
| Soggetto topico |
Coincidence - Psychic aspects
Astrology |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Active imagination
Ad hoc hypothesis Alhazen All things Apperception Archetype Astrological aspect Astrological sign Astrology Binomial distribution Calculation Carl Jung Causal chain Causality Certainty Clockwise Coincidence Consciousness Correspondence theory of truth Criticism De Corpore Determination Disadvantage Disposition Eranos Estimator Existence Explanation Extrasensory perception Firmament Foreknowledge God Hans Driesch Hermann Weyl Hieros gamos Horoscope Hypothesis Image of God Imagery Incident (Scientology) Individuation Instance (computer science) Interdependence Johannes Kepler Lao-Tzu Maxima and minima Modern physics Monadology Monograph Natural philosophy Niels Bohr Observation Parapsychology Phenomenon Philosopher Philosophy Physicist Plotinus Poisson distribution Precognition Principle Probability Proportion (architecture) Psychology and Alchemy Psychology Psychophysical parallelism Quantity Quartile Reality Reason Result Richard Wilhelm (sinologist) Robert Fludd Scientific theory Self-experimentation Significant figures Simultaneity Skepticism Society for Psychical Research Sonu Shamdasani Statistic Statistics Symptom Taoism Telepathy Tertium comparationis The Interpretation of Dreams The Secret of the Golden Flower The Soul of the World The Various Theodicy Theory Third eye Thought Treatise Universality (philosophy) Validity (statistics) Wissenschaft Wolfgang Pauli Yin and yang |
| ISBN |
1-283-40599-7
9786613405999 1-4008-3916-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword to the 2010 Edition -- Editorial Preface -- Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle -- Foreword -- 1. Exposition -- 2. An Astrological Experiment -- 3. Forerunners of the Idea of Synchronicity -- 4. Conclusion -- APPENDIX: On Synchronicity -- Bibliography -- Index -- Princeton/Bollingen Paperback Editions |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790467503321 |
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| Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2012] | ||
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