Weyl / Pesic Mind and Nature

Selected Writings on Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3332-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Weyl, Hermann

Pesic, Peter

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pesic, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Philosophie der Mathematik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1
1921   Ch 1. Electricity and Gravitation 20
1922   Ch 2. Two Letters by Einstein and Weyl on a Metaphysical Question 25
1927   Ch 3. Time Relations in the Cosmos, Proper Time, Lived Time, and Metaphysical Time 29
1932   Ch 4. The Open World: Three Lectures on the Metaphysical Implications of Science 34
1934   Ch 5. Mind and Nature 83
1946   Ch 6. Address at the Princeton Bicentennial Conference 162
ca.1949   Ch 7. Man and the Foundations of Science 175
1954   Ch 8. The Unity of Knowledge 194
1955   Ch 9. Insight and Reflection 204
Notes 223
References 241
Acknowledgments 253
Index 255

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Pesic is Tutor and Musician-in-Residence at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His books include Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability and Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature.