Impossible Worlds
Author | : Francesco Berto |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198812795 |
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Author | : Francesco Berto |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198812795 |
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Author | : Stephen Coates |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
"This book explores the ways in which real buildings have resulted from visionary ideas, and assesses the extent to which these buildings have changed the way people live. In three sections, the editors Stephen Coates and Alex Stetter have arranged key texts together with a selection of projects which illustrate the ideas, and the built realities which followed on from them." "In the first part, Hilary French explores the development of communitarian ideas, and the ways in which utopian thinking has generated new ideas for housing. The second section, with a major text by Joe Kerr, argues that the supposedly ideal housing devised by the proponents of Garden Cities has been Disneyfied and sold to wealthy Americans in a bizarre subversion of the American Dream. In the third section, Francois Penz and Maureen Thomas explain the influence of film on the development of visionary architecture, arguing that unbuilt projects have been just as important as those realised in three dimensions."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Melissa Beattie |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2010-02-19 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1443820466 |
The successful regeneration of Doctor Who in the twenty-first century has sparked unprecedented popular success and renewed interest within the academy. The ten essays assembled in this volume draw on a variety of critical approaches—from cultural theory to audience studies, to classical reception and musicology—to form a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-off series, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. With additional contributions from Andrew Pixley, Robert Shearman, Barnaby Edwards, and Matt Hills, the volume is intended to be accessible to everyone, from interested academics in relevant fields to the general public.
Author | : Peter Chiykowski |
Publisher | : Chizine Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Flash fiction, Canadian |
ISBN | : 9781771484671 |
Postcards From Impossible Worlds collects 88 dazzling micro-stories written as postcards from strange and beautiful worlds that run parallel to our own.
Author | : John Gribbin |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2019-10-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0262043238 |
“An elegant and accessible” investigation of quantum mechanics for non-specialists—“highly recommended” for students of the sciences, sci-fi fans, and anyone interested in the strange world of quantum physics (Forbes) Rules of the quantum world seem to say that a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time and a particle can be in two places at once. And that particle is also a wave; everything in the quantum world can described in terms of waves—or entirely in terms of particles. These interpretations were all established by the end of the 1920s, by Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, and others. But no one has yet come up with a common sense explanation of what is going on. In this concise and engaging book, astrophysicist John Gribbin offers an overview of six of the leading interpretations of quantum mechanics. Gribbin calls his account “agnostic,” explaining that none of these interpretations is any better—or any worse—than any of the others. Gribbin presents the Copenhagen Interpretation, promoted by Niels Bohr and named by Heisenberg; the Pilot-Wave Interpretation, developed by Louis de Broglie; the Many Worlds Interpretation (termed “excess baggage” by Gribbin); the Decoherence Interpretation (“incoherent”); the Ensemble “Non-Interpretation”; and the Timeless Transactional Interpretation (which theorized waves going both forward and backward in time). All of these interpretations are crazy, Gribbin warns, and some are more crazy than others—but in the quantum world, being more crazy does not necessarily mean more wrong.
Author | : Ann Druyan |
Publisher | : National Geographic |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1426219083 |
"Cosmos: Possible Worlds travels through more than 14 billion years of cosmic evolution and into an astonishing future where probes travel by light beams to distant stars, helping us solve enduring mysteries of our origins and dream toward an unimaginable time ahead."--
Author | : Boris Christian Kment |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199604681 |
Argues that the concepts of necessity and possibility originate in a common type of thought experiment, counterfactual reasoning, that allows us to investigate explanatory connections and is colsely related to the controlled experiments of empirical science.
Author | : Alexander R. Pruss |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2011-05-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1441145168 |
Actuality, Possibility and Worlds is an exploration of the Aristotelian account that sees possibilities as grounded in causal powers. On his way to that account, Pruss surveys a number of historical approaches and argues that logicist approaches to possibility are implausible. The notion of possible worlds appears to be useful for many purposes, such as the analysis of counterfactuals or elucidating the nature of propositions and properties. This usefulness of possible worlds makes for a second general question: Are there any possible worlds and, if so, what are they? Are they concrete universes as David Lewis thinks, Platonic abstracta as per Robert M. Adams and Alvin Plantinga, or maybe linguistic or mathematical constructs such as Heller thinks? Or is perhaps Leibniz right in thinking that possibilia are not on par with actualities and that abstracta can only exist in a mind, so that possible worlds are ideas in the mind of God?
Author | : Raymond Bradley |
Publisher | : Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 1979-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780915144594 |
Sermons by a noted German theologian discuss what the Bible says about freedom, political power, fear, unity, and human rights
Author | : Arthur Schopenhauer |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-08-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1624668496 |
This edition originally published by Berghahn Books. Schopenhauer's treatise on ethics is presented here in E. F. J. Payne’s definitive translation, based on the Hubscher edition (Wiesbaden, 1946-1950). This edition includes an Introduction by David Cartwright, a translator’s preface, biographical note, selected bibliography, and an index. For convenient reference to passages in Kant's work discussed by Schopenhauer, Academy edition numbers have been added.