Reason and Being
Boris Kuznetsov was a scientist among humanists, a philosopher among scientists, a historian for those who look to the future, an optimist in an age of sadness. He was steeped in classical European culture, from earliest times to the latest avant-garde, and he roamed through the ages, an inveterate...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1987, 1987
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1987 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I
- 1. The Heraclitean-Eleatic Clash
- 2. Paradoxes of Being
- 3. Einstein and Epicurus
- 4. The Rationalism of the Renaissance
- 5. Descartes
- 6. Spinoza and Einstein
- 7. The Genesis of Classical Science and the Problem of Nonidentity
- 8. Dynamism and the Critique of Stationary Being
- II
- 9. Heterogeneous Being
- 10. Existence and Actuality
- 11. Understanding and Reason in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Science
- 12. Nothing and the Vacuum
- Afterword
- Afterword
- Bibliography of Works Cited
- Index of Names