Cause and Chance, Dowe, Phil

Автор: Mcluhan, Marshall Mcluhan, Eric
Название: Media and formal cause
ISBN: 0983274703 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780983274704
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Описание: Reviews

No one understood causality, whether Aristotelian or electric, like Marshall McLuhan. Now, in Media and Formal Cause, no one reveals understanding of formal cause in the digital environment better than McLuhan's prot g son, Eric. In the foreword, Lance Strate writes that M. McLuhan's Understanding Media was one of the most important books of the 20th century. For anyone who wishes to understand how things truly work, Media and Formal Cause is one of the most important books of the 21st. Arguably formal cause has been the least understood but the most intellectually important of all of Aristotle's four agents or processes of causation. This small volume proffers a large understanding of this formative, previously mysterious level of invisible creation. Three essays by Marshall (one with co-author Barry Nevitt) and a powerful new essay by Eric give new meaning to ye olde clich , "like father, like son". While reading writing that is engaging, encyclopedic, and electric, we discover that formal cause is not what you think... but it is vital to how you think.
-Thomas Cooper, Professor of Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College; author of Fast Media/Media Fast

In Media and Formal Cause Eric McLuhan updates an important part of his father's work that is often overlooked, the quixotic role of causality in making sense of how new media change the way we construct our environment and our communication. How does novelty cause antiquity? When do effects precede causes? Read on, and you shall find out.
-David Rothenberg, Professor of Philosophy and Music, New Jersey Institute of Technology; author of Why Birds Sing and Thousand Mile Song

Like his mentor, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Marshall McLuhan was often accused of indulging in mere paradox. But Media and Formal Cause demonstrates the profound understanding that underlies the work of both Chesterton and McLuhan, the understanding that we live in a paradoxical world. Both McLuhan and Chesterton attempted to jar readers loose from what Cardinal Newman called "paper logic" into a recognition of the total situation in which we find ourselves. This very readable and accessible volume should greatly assist new readers of McLuhan and remind long time students of just how challenging and exhilarating his explorations were.
-Philip Marchand, author, Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger

A sage and perceptive quartet of essays which capture and extend a still quintessentially unique way of thinking about media, via patterns and connections that harken to the ancient world and redound to our present and future.
-Paul Levinson, Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University; author of Digital McLuhan, and of New New Media

Автор: Barry Loewer, Brad Weslake, Eric Winsberg
Название: The Probability Map of the Universe Essays on David Albert`s Time and Chance
ISBN: 0674967879 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674967878
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: David Albert`s 2000 book Time and Chance attempts to account for some of the most intractable problems in theoretical physics, in particular those arising from the direction of time. This collection assembles essays exploring and debating Albert`s ideas, now recognized as among the most important recent contributions to the philosophy of science.

Автор: Klaas Landsman; Ellen van Wolde
Название: The Challenge of Chance
ISBN: 331926298X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319262987
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Описание: This book presents a multidisciplinary perspective on chance, with contributions from distinguished researchers in the areas of biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, genetics, general history, law, linguistics, logic, mathematical physics, statistics, theology and philosophy.

Автор: Pelczar, Michael (national University Of Singapore)
Название: Phenomenalism
ISBN: 019286873X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192868732
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Phenomenalism develops the claim that physical objects are constructions out of possible sensations. Michael Pelczar defends this view against objections and uses it to illuminate topics in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics.

Автор: Dowe, Phil
Название: Cause and Chance
ISBN: 0415300983 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415300988
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Автор: Hoefer Carl
Название: Chance in the World
ISBN: 019090741X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190907419
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Описание: This book explains how we can understand objective chance (or objective probability) in a metaphysically neutral way, as reducible to certain patterns that can be discerned in the actual events of our world.

Автор: Bohm, David
Название: Causality and Chance in Modern Physics
ISBN: 0415174406 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415174404
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Автор: Wilson, Alastair
Название: Chance and Temporal Asymmetry
ISBN: 019967342X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199673421
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Описание: This volume presents twelve original essays on the metaphysics of science, with particular focus on the physics of chance and time. Experts in the field subject familiar approaches to searching critiques, and make bold new proposals in a number of key areas. Together, they set the agenda for future work on the subject.

Автор: Myrvold, Wayne C. (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario)
Название: Beyond Chance and Credence
ISBN: 0198865090 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198865094
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Описание: Beyond Chance and Credence introduces a new way of thinking of probabilities in science that combines physical and epistemic considerations. Myrvold shows that conceiving of probabilities in this way solves puzzles associated with the use of probability and statistical mechanics.

Автор: Alexander Steinberg
Название: A Chance for Possibility: An Investigation into the Grounds of Modality
ISBN: 3110334895 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110334890
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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Описание: As philosophers are keen to say, there is a possible world where Socrates is a carpenter. Plausibly, truths about what might or could not be the case are not basic but grounded in more fundamental features of reality. Steinberg develops this insight into a novel account of the supervenience structure of the modal realm. This study was awarded the 2012 GAP/ontos award.

Автор: Landsman Klaas, Van Wolde Ellen
Название: The Challenge of Chance: A Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities
ISBN: 331979924X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319799247
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Описание: This book presents a multidisciplinary perspective on chance, with contributions from distinguished researchers in the areas of biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, genetics, general history, law, linguistics, logic, mathematical physics, statistics, theology and philosophy. The individual chapters are bound together by a general introduction followed by an opening chapter that surveys 2500 years of linguistic, philosophical, and scientific reflections on chance, coincidence, fortune, randomness, luck and related concepts. A main conclusion that can be drawn is that, even after all this time, we still cannot be sure whether chance is a truly fundamental and irreducible phenomenon, in that certain events are simply uncaused and could have been otherwise, or whether it is always simply a reflection of our ignorance. Other challenges that emerge from this book include a better understanding of the contextuality and perspectival character of chance (including its scale-dependence), and the curious fact that, throughout history (including contemporary science), chance has been used both as an explanation and as a hallmark of the absence of explanation. As such, this book challenges the reader to think about chance in a new way and to come to grips with this endlessly fascinating phenomenon.

Автор: Bohm
Название: Causality and Chance in Modern Physics
ISBN: 1138151556 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138151550
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Описание: Here Bohm offers his causal interpretation of the quantum theory.