Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection The White Book of “Einstein Meets Magritte”

Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection presents insights of the renowned key speakers of the interdisciplinary Einstein meets Magritte conference (1995, Brussels Free University). The contributions elaborate on fundamental questions of science, with regard to the contemporary world...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Aerts, Diederik (Editor), Broekaert, Jan (Editor), Mathijs, Ernest (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1999, 1999
Edition:1st ed. 1999
Series:Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Einstein Meets Magritte: The Scholar, the Muse and the Barfly
  • 2. Basically, It’s Purely Academic
  • 3. The Manifest Image and the Scientific Image
  • 4. Microdynamics of Incommensurability: Philosophy of Science Meets Science Studies
  • 5. Subjects, Objects, Data and Values
  • 6. Einstein and Magritte. A Study of Creativity
  • 7. Quanta and Relativity: Two Failed Revolutions
  • 8. The Redundancy of Spacetime: Relativity from Cusa to Einstein
  • 9. The Stuff the World Is Made of: Physics and Reality
  • 10. Dasein’s Brain: Phenomenology Meets Cognitive Science
  • 11. What Creativity in Science and Art Tell Us about How the Brain Must Work
  • 12. The Hermeneutic Versus the Scientific Conception of 219 Psychoanalysis: An Unsuccessful Effort to Chart a Via Media for the Human Sciences
  • 13. Immortality, Biology, Computers
  • 14. The End of Certainty in Economics