Knowledge and Time

✍ Scribed by Hans Primas (auth.), Harald Atmanspacher (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 431
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is a unique volume by a unique scientist, which combines conceptual, formal, and engineering approaches in a way that is rarely seen. Its core is the relation between ways of learning and knowing on the one hand and different modes of time on the other. Partial Boolean logic and the associated notion of complementarity are used to express this relation, and mathematical tools of fundamental physics are used to formalize it. Along the way many central philosophical problems are touched and addressed, above all the mind-body problem. Completed only shortly before the death of the author, the text has been edited and annotated by the author's close collaborator Harald Atmanspacher.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-10
Boolean Descriptions....Pages 11-21
Non-Boolean Descriptions....Pages 23-52
Rationality and Creativity....Pages 53-72
Modes of Knowing in Mathematics....Pages 73-89
Bottom-Up Approaches in Physics....Pages 91-153
Top-Down Approaches in Physics....Pages 155-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Matter, Mind, and Time....Pages 185-210
Temporal Groups and Algebras....Pages 211-241
Representations of Temporal Groups and Semigroups....Pages 243-277
Complementary Temporal Descriptions....Pages 279-308
The Relevance of Sequential Time....Pages 309-351
The Relevance of Non-Sequential Time....Pages 353-360
Back Matter....Pages 361-427

✦ Subjects

History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics;Epistemology;Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes;Philosophy of Science;Cognitive Psychology