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This book is the first all-encompassing exploration of the role of demons in philosophical and scientific thought experiments. In Part I, the author explains the importance of thought experiments in science and philosophy. Part II considers Laplace’s Demon, whose claim is that the world is completely deterministic. Part III introduces Maxwell’s Demon, who - by contrast - experiences a world that is probabilistic and indeterministic. Part IV explores Nietzsche’s thesis of the cyclic and eternal recurrence of events. In each case a number of philosophical consequences regarding determinism and indeterminism, the arrows of time, the nature of the mind and free will are said to follow from the Demons’s worldviews. The book investigates what these Demons - and others - can and cannot tell us about our world. .
Physics. --- Philosophy and science. --- Cosmology. --- History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Popular Science in Physics. --- Science --- Philosophy. --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Astronomy --- Deism --- Metaphysics --- Science and philosophy --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics
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The aim of this interdisciplinary study is to reconstruct the evolution of our changing conceptions of time in the light of scientific discoveries. It will adopt a new perspective and organize the material around three central themes, which run through our history of time reckoning: cosmology and regularity; stasis and flux; symmetry and asymmetry. It is the physical criteria that humans choose – relativistic effects and time-symmetric equations or dynamic-kinematic effects and asymmetric conditions – that establish our views on the nature of time. This book will defend a dynamic rather than a static view of time.
Astrophysics. --- Cosmology. --- Physics. --- Space and time --- Time --- Science --- Philosophy & Religion --- Astronomy & Astrophysics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Practical & Spherical Astronomy --- Philosophy --- History --- Discoveries in science --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy and science. --- Statistical physics. --- Dynamical systems. --- Popular works. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Popular Science, general. --- History of Science. --- History of Philosophy. --- Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity. --- Science (General). --- Philosophy (General). --- Complex Systems. --- Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems. --- Physics --- Mathematical statistics --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Statistical methods --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mathematics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Mechanics --- Statics --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Science and philosophy
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Folklore --- Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Fairy tales --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Fairy tales - History and criticism.
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Inventions --- History --- 20th century --- 19th century --- Zippers --- Inventions - History - 20th century. --- Inventions - History - 19th century. --- Zippers - History. --- Manufacturing technologies --- zippers --- uitvindingen --- anno 1800-1999
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Households --- Housing --- Older people --- Aged --- Aging people --- Elderly people --- Old people --- Older adults --- Older persons --- Senior citizens --- Seniors (Older people) --- Age groups --- Persons --- Gerontocracy --- Gerontology --- Old age --- Population --- Families --- Home economics --- Economic aspects --- Age group sociology --- Sociology of environment --- Netherlands
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Clergy --- Sonnenschein, Carl, --- Catholic Church --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교
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Laws of Nature
Science --- Philosophy and science. --- Nature. --- Science and philosophy --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Philosophy.
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