Philosophy and the Origin and Evolution of the Universe - Rilegato

Agazzi, Evandro

 
9780792313229: Philosophy and the Origin and Evolution of the Universe
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 0792313224 ISBN 13: 9780792313229
Casa editrice: Kluwer Academic Pub, 1991

Sinossi

Modern cosmology, though a confluence of relativity theory and elementary particle physics, and with the help of very sophisticated mathematical models, tries to encompass the Universe as a whole, and to propose theories regarding its origin and evolution. But this cannot work without the evolution of several philosophical issues, concerning the epistemological status of this enterprise, its implicit or explicit extra-scientific presuppositions, as well as the real sense and interpretation of the theories and principles involved.
This book provides a survey of these different aspects, for it gives some essential elements of the scientific background necessary for understanding the main issues of modern cosmology, and at the same time offer a discussion of the problems arising in it; problems which are never purely scientific, nor purely philosophical.
Science and philosophy are therefore again deeply interrelated, at the moment where man tries to understand the Universe and his place in it. And this not only because the legitimacy of calling cosmology a science implies the acceptance of intellectual approaches which overstep the usual criteria of physical science and have a deep philosophical connotation, but also because the evolutionary way of thinking, strongly backed by cosmology, reinforces the role of this approach in the philosophy of science and in philosophy in general.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Alberto Cordero teaches philosophy at the City University of New York, Queens College. He is the author of numerous articles in philosophy of science. Besides his focus on quantum theory, his research interests include the history of the natural sciences, the relation between science and value, and the contemporary conception of nature and naturalism. Alberto Cordero is a founding member of the Institute for Philosophical Investigations at Lima University and several other scholarly societies and programs in Latin America.

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Editore
Kluwer Academic Pub
Data di pubblicazione
1991
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0792313224
ISBN 13 
9780792313229
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
480
Redattore
Cordero Alberto
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