Description
Knowledge and Time, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Author: Primas Hans
Coordinator: Atmanspacher Harald
Language: EnglishSubjects for Knowledge and Time:
Publication date: 06-2017
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 08-2018
Support: Print on demand
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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.
Hans Primas was professor of chemistry at ETH in Zurich, but also pursued his strong interests in psychology and philosophy, partly inspired by the work of C. G. Jung and Wolfgang Pauli. In addition he worked on the formulation and philosophy of quantum mechanics, particularly the measurement problem, on realism in quantum theory, and on emergence and reduction in the sciences in general.
A thought provoking book for philosophers, physicists and mathematicians
Challenges our notions of what it means to know something
Connects experience, knowledge and time by means of original arguments and careful formal analysis
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras