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  • 1
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    Moral teleology : a theory of progress (2023)
    New York, NY :Routledge,
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    Format: 1 online resource (225 pages)
    ISBN: 1-00-337575-8 , 1-000-89956-X , 1-003-37575-8 , 1-000-89960-8
    Series Statement: Routledge studies in ethics and moral theory
    Content: "This book develops a unified theory of moral progress. The author argues that there are mechanisms in place that consistently drive societies towards moral improvement and that a sophisticated, naturalistically respectable form of teleology can be defended. The book's main aim is to flesh out the process of moral progress in more detail, and to show how, when the right mechanisms and institutions of moral progress are matched together, they create pressure for the desired types of moral gains to manifest. The first part of the book deals with two issues: the conceptual one about what moral progress is, and the broadly empirical one whether it is possible. It shows that cultural evolution successfully explains the origins of modern forms of morally welcome change. The second part argues that there is logical space for a moderate, scientifically credible form of teleology, and that the converse case for moral decline is weak. It addresses the types, drivers and institutions of moral progress that allow for the storage, transmission and cumulative improvement of our normative infrastructure over time. Finally, the third part demonstrates why moral progress cannot be accounted for in metaethically realist terms. Moral Teleology will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in ethics, moral epistemology and moral psychology"--
    Note: Intro -- Introduction -- 1 The Shape of Things to Come: What Is Moral Progress? -- Introduction -- 1.1 The Concept of Moral Progress -- 1.2 But Is It Progress? -- 1.3 Local and Global -- 1.4 Individual and Collective -- 1.5 Wide and Narrow -- 1.6 Moral Regress -- 1.7 One Step Back, Two Steps Forward -- 1.8 Regress for All! -- 1.9 Imperfect Allies -- 1.10 The Princess and the Pea -- 2 Butchering Benevolence: Is Moral Progress Possible? -- Introduction -- 2.1 The Limits of Concern -- 2.2 From Evolution to Conservatism -- 2.3 A Conservative Advantage? -- 2.4 The Wrong Kind of Progress -- 2.5 Does Evolution Constrain Moral Progress? -- 3 The End of Utopia: Does Moral Progress Have a Goal? -- Introduction -- 3.1 Naturalizing Teleology? -- 3.2 Normative Ambivalence -- 3.3 What Is Teleology, Anyway? -- (i) Directionality -- (ii) Agency -- (iii) Probability -- (iv) Morality -- (v) Transparency -- (vi) Scale -- (vii) Uniqueness -- (viii) Timing -- 3.4 Taking Teleology Seriously -- 4 Looking Forward: Towards Teleology 2.0 -- Introduction -- 4.1 The Case for Decline -- 4.2 Debunking Teleology? Anti-Narrativism -- 4.3 The New Optimism: Empirical Evidence for Progress -- 4.4 The Cunning of Reason: Teleology Without Goals -- 4.5 The Arc(s) of History -- 4.6 Circularity and Smugness -- 5 Beyond Expansion: Which Types of Moral Progress Are There? -- Introduction -- 5.1 Well-Being -- 5.2 Equality -- 5.3 Moral Status: The Expanding Circle -- 5.4 Moral Status: The Contracting Circle -- 5.5 Liberty and Autonomy -- 5.6 Fewer Bad Norms -- 5.7 More Good Norms -- 5.8 Improved Compliance -- 5.9 Improved Moral Knowledge -- 5.10 Moral Progress: Towards a Systematic Typology -- 5.11 Evolutionary Conservatism Again -- 6 Mechanisms of Moral Evolution: What Drives Moral Progress? -- Introduction -- 6.1 Energy Capture, Group Size, and Technology: Material Mechanisms. , 6.2 Social Integration: Functionalistic Mechanisms -- 6.3 Knowledge and Information: Epistemic Mechanisms -- 6.4 Crisis and Struggle: Social Movements -- 6.5 New Norms: Experiments in Living -- 7 Unsocial Sociability: How Can Moral Progress Be Sustained? -- Introduction -- 7.1 Intelligent Design -- 7.2 Storage and Retrieval: Mechanisms of Transmission -- 7.3 Norms and Practices -- 7.4 The Socially Extended Mind -- 7.5 Institutions Rule -- 7.6 Institutional Bypassing -- 7.7 Proxy Institutions -- 7.8 Ameliorative Institutions -- 7.9 Slow Institutions? -- 7.10 Reflexive Institutions -- 7.11 Extracting Norms From Institutions -- 8 The Long March: Does Moral Progress Require Moral Facts? -- Introduction -- 8.1 From Moral Progress to Moral Facts: The Simple Argument -- 8.2 The Case of Conversion -- 8.3 A Realist Account of Moral Progress -- 8.4 Anti-Realism: Moral and Scientific Progress, Functionalism, and Problem-Solving -- 8.5 Moral Convergence -- 8.6 The Fact of Moral Universalism -- (1) Basic Evaluative Dispositions -- (2) Cooperative Strategies -- (3) Cross-Cultural Values -- (4) Political Values -- 8.7 Realism Requires Disagreement -- Scientific and Moral Knowledge -- Everyday Knowledge and Moral Knowledge -- Easy Moral Knowledge -- Moral Expertise -- Counterattack -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Additional Edition: Print version: Sauer, Hanno Moral Teleology Milton : Taylor & Francis Group,c2023 ISBN 9781032451800
    Language: English
    Subjects: Philosophy
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    Keywords: Electronic books.
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    Everything is miscellaneous : the power of the new digital disorder (2007)
    New York [u.a.] :Times Books,
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    Format: 277 S.
    Edition: 1. ed.
    ISBN: 0-8050-8043-0 , 978-0-8050-8043-8
    Content: Philosopher Weinberger shows how the digital revolution is radically changing the way we make sense of our lives. Human beings constantly collect, label, and organize data--but today, the shift from the physical to the digital is mixing, burning, and ripping our lives apart. In the past, everything had its one place--the physical world demanded it--but now everything has its places: multiple categories, multiple shelves. Everything is suddenly miscellaneous. Weinberger charts the new principles of digital order that are remaking business, education, politics, science, and culture. He examines how Rand McNally decides what information not to include in a physical map (and why Google Earth is winning that battle), how Staples stores emulate online shopping to increase sales, why your children's teachers will stop having them memorize facts, and how the shift to digital music stands as the model for the future.--From publisher description
    Content: From A to Z, Everything Is Miscellaneous will completely reshape the way you think - and what you know - about the world. Includes information on alphabetical order, Amaxon.com, animals, Aristotle, authority, Bettmann Archive, blogs (weblogs), books, broadcasting, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), business, card catalog, categories and categorization, clusters, companies, Colon Classification, conversation, Melvil Dewey, Dewey Decimal Classification system, Encyclopaedia Britannica, encyclopedia, essentialism, experts, faceted classification system, first order of order, Flickr.com, Google, Great Books of the Western World, ancient Greeks, health and medical information, identifiers, index, inventory tracking, knowledge, labels, leaf and leaves, libraries, Library of Congress, links, Carolus Linnaeus, lumping and splitting, maps and mapping, marketing, meaning, metadata, multiple listing services (MLS), names of people, neutrality or neutral point of view, New York Public Library, Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), order and organization, people, physical space, everything having place, Plato, race, S.R. Ranganathan, Eleanor Rosch, Joshua Schacter, science, second order of order, simplicity, social constructivism, social knowledge, social networks, sorting, species, standardization, tags, taxonomies, third order of roder, topical categorization, tree, Uniform Product Code (UPC), users, Jimmy Wales, web, Wikipedia, etc
    Language: English
    Subjects: Computer Science , General works , Philosophy
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    AN 93200
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    AP 18000
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    CC 3200
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    ST 515
    Keywords: Informationsmanagement ; Elektronisches Informationsmittel ; Wissensmanagement ; Informationstechnik ; Wissensmanagement ; Informationstechnik ; Gesellschaft
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    Political philosophy in a pandemic : routes to a more just future (2021)
    London ; : Bloomsbury Academic,
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    Format: 1 online resource
    ISBN: 9781350225930 , 9781350225923
    Content: "Government lockdowns, school closures, mass unemployment, health and wealth inequality. Political Philosophy in a Pandemic asks us, where do we go from here? What are the ethics of our response to a radically changed, even more unequal society, and how do we seize the moment for enduring change? Addressing the moral and political implications of pandemic response from states and societies worldwide, the 20 essays collected here cover the most pressing debates relating to the biggest public health crisis in the last century. Discussing the pandemic in five key parts covering social welfare, economic justice, democratic relations, speech and misinformation, and the relationship between justice and crisis, this book reflects the fruitful combination of political theory and philosophy in laying the theoretical and practical foundations for justice in the long-term"--
    Note: List of contributors -- Foreword by Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengrave -- 1. Introduction, Aveek Battacharya (Social Market Foundation, UK), Fay Niker (University of Stirling, UK) -- Part I Social welfare and vulnerability -- 2. Risk, disadvantage and the COVID-19 crisis, Jonathan Wolff (University of Oxford, UK), Avner de-Shalit (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) -- 3. How should we distribute scarce medical resources in a pandemic? Sara Van Goozen (University of York, UK) -- 4. Assessing the impact of school closures on children through a vulnerability lens, Nicolás Brando (Queen's University Belfast, UK), Katarina Pitasse Fragoso (São Paulo University, Brazil) -- 5. Adequate housing in a pandemic, David Jenkins (University of Otago, Canada), Katy Wells (University of Warwick, UK), Kimberley Brownlee (University of British Columbia, Canada) -- Part II Economic justice -- 6. Should the older generation pay more of the COVID-19 debt? David Yarrow (University of Edinburgh, UK) -- 7. Rebuilding social insurance to end economic precarity, Lisa Herzog (University of Groningen, Netherlands) -- 8. Pandemic solidarity and universal basic income, Diana Popescu (King's College London, UK) -- Part III Democratic relations -- 9. Legitimating pandemic-responsive policy: Whose voices count when? Rowan Cruft (University of Stirling, UK) -- 10. Living alone under lockdown, Felix Pinkert (University of Vienna, Austria) -- 11.Should we hold elections during a pandemic? Alexandru Volacu (University of Bucharest, Hungary) -- 12. The pandemic and our democratic way of life, Marc Stears (University of Sydney, Australia) -- Part IV Speech and (mis)information -- 13.Coronavirus misinformation, social media, and freedom of speech, Jeffrey Howard (University College London, UK) -- 14. What is the democratic state's obligation of transparency in times of crisis? Rebecca Lowe (King's College London, UK) -- 15. Deferring to expertise in public health emergencies, Viktor Ivankovic (Institute of Philosophy, Croatia), Lovro Savic (University of Oxford, UK) --16. Should we shame those who ignore social distancing guidelines? Paul Billingham (University of Oxford, UK), Tom Parr (University of Warwick, UK) -- Part V Crisis and justice -- 17. Harnessing the epistemic value of crises for just ends, Matthew Adams (Indiana University Bloomington, USA), Fay Niker (University of Stirling, UK) -- 18. Living through the pandemic: an experiment in egalitarian living for the middle classes? Anca Gheaus (Central European University, Hungary) -- 19. Coronavirus and climate change: What can the former teach us about the latter? -- Julia Hermann (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands), Katharina Bauer (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands), Christian Baatz (University of Kiel, Germany) -- 20. Pandemic as political theory, Adam Swift (University College London, UK) -- Index. , Previously issued in print: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
    Additional Edition: Print version: Political philosophy in a pandemic London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. ISBN 9781350225893
    Language: English
    Subjects: Political Science , Philosophy
    RVK:
    CC 7800
    RVK:
    MD 1000
    Keywords: Electronic books. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books
    DOI: 10.5040/9781350225930
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    The three escapes of Hannah Arendt : a tyranny of truth (2018)
    New York ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney :Bloomsbury,
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    Format: 233 Seiten : , Illustrationen.
    ISBN: 978-1-63557-188-2 , 978-1-5266-0240-4
    Content: "One of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a hero of political thought, the largely unsung and often misunderstood Hannah Arendt is best known for her landmark 1951 book on openness in political life, The Origins of Totalitarianism, which, with its powerful and timely lessons for today, has become newly relevant. She led an extraordinary life. This was a woman who endured Nazi persecution firsthand, survived harrowing "escapes" from country to country in Europe, and befriended such luminaries as Walter Benjamin and Mary McCarthy, in a world inhabited by everyone from Marc Chagall and Marlene Dietrich to Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. A woman who finally had to give up her unique genius for philosophy, and her love of a very compromised man--the philosopher and Nazi-sympathizer Martin Heidegger--for what she called "love of the world". Compassionate and enlightening, playful and page-turning, New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt is a strikingly illustrated portrait of a complex, controversial, deeply flawed, and irrefutably courageous woman whose intelligence and "virulent truth telling" led her to breathtaking insights into the human condition, and whose experience continues to shine a light on how to live as an individual and a public citizen in troubled times."--Amazon
    Language: English
    Subjects: Philosophy
    RVK:
    CI 6373
    Keywords: 1906-1975 Arendt, Hannah ; Biografie ; Comic ; Biografie ; Comic ; Biografie ; Comic ; Biografie ; Comic
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    American writing today : its independence and vigor (1957)
    New York :New York Univ. Press,
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    Format: XX, 433 S.
    Former: Früher u.d.T. The Times (London) Literary Supplement
    Language: English
    Subjects: American Studies
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Literatur
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    Dharma lion : a critical biography of Allen Ginsberg (1992)
    New York :St. Martin's Pr.,
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    Format: XV, 769 S. : Ill.
    Edition: 1. ed.
    ISBN: 0-312-08179-0
    Content: Perhaps no poet in the history of America, with the exception of Walt Whitman, has so dominated the popular imagination as has Allen Ginsberg. From the close of World War II to the end of the Cold War, Ginsberg has been in the vanguard of every popular movement; from the emergence of the Beat Generation in the Fifties to the hippie and antiwar movements of the sixties, to the ecology movement and the Buddhist revival of the seventies, Allen Ginsberg has given voice to his generation's spirit in poetry of astonishing power. Michael Schumacher has spent eight years researching and writing this dramatic biography, with Ginsberg's full cooperation and with access to all his journals and papers, as well as spending thousands of hours interviewing Ginsberg's friends and enemies alike. With the sweep of an epic novel Schumacher tells the story of this quintessentially American poet and his times, with fascinating portraits of such contemporaries as Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and William Burroughs, among many others, along with many rarely seen photographs. This is undoubtedly the most complete portrait we are ever likely to see of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.
    Language: English
    Subjects: American Studies
    RVK:
    HU 3705
    Keywords: 1926-1997 Ginsberg, Allen ; 1926-1997 Ginsberg, Allen ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie
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    Lincoln / (1995)
    New York :Simon & Schuster,
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    Format: 714 Seiten, 32 ungezählte Seiten : , Illustrationen, Karten.
    ISBN: 0-684-80846-3
    Content: "This fully rounded biography of America's sixteenth President is the product of Donald's half-century of study of Lincoln and his times. In preparing it, Donald has drawn more extensively than any previous writer on Lincoln's personal papers and those of his contemporaries, and he has taken full advantage of the voluminous newly discovered records of Lincoln's legal practice. He presents his findings with the same literary skill and psychological understanding exhibited in his previous biographies, which have received two Pulitzer Prizes." "Much more than a political biography, Donald's Lincoln reveals the development of the future President's character and shows how his private life helped to shape his public career. In Donald's skillful hands, Lincoln emerges as a youthful, vigorous President. One of the youngest men ever to occupy the White House, he was also the husband of an even younger wife and the father of boisterous children. We witness how Lincoln's absorption with politics disrupted his family life, and how his often tumultuous marriage affected his political career. And we see a man renowned for his storytelling and his often sidesplitting humor lapse into the periods of deep melancholy to which he was prone, not only during the dark days of the Civil War but throughout his life." "Donald's strikingly original portrait of Lincoln depicts a man who was basically passive by nature, who confessed that he did not control events but events had controlled him. Yet coupled with that fatalism was an unbounded ambition that drove him to take enormous political risks and enabled him to overcome repeated defeats. Donald shows that Lincoln was a master of ambiguity and expediency - but he also stresses that Lincoln was a great moral leader, inflexibly opposed to slavery and absolutely committed to preserving the Union."--BOOK JACKET.
    Language: English
    Subjects: History , American Studies
    RVK:
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    HT 5965
    Keywords: 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie
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    Sometimes you have to lie : the life and times of Louise Fitzhugh, renegade author of Harriet the spy (2020)
    New York, NY :Seal Press,
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    Format: viii, 335 Seiten, 7 Seiten Bildtafeln : , Illustrationen ; , 24 cm.
    Edition: First edition
    ISBN: 978-1-58005-769-1 , 1-58005-769-1
    Content: Louise Fitzhugh's books are full of resistance: to liars, to conformity, to authority, and even (radically, for a children's author) to make-believe. As a commercial children's author and lesbian, Fitzhugh often had to disguise the nature of her most intimate relationships. She lived her life as a dissenter--a friend to underdogs, outsiders, and artists--and her masterpiece remains long after her death to influence and provoke new generations of readers. Harriet is massively influential among girls and women in contemporary culture; she is the missing link between Jo March and Scout Finch, and it's not surprising that writers have thought of her as a kind of patron saint for misfit writers and unfeminine girls. This biography brings Harriet's creator into the frame, shedding new light on the author and her work
    Content: "The protagonist and anti-heroine of Louise Fitzhugh's masterpiece Harriet the Spy, first published first in 1964, continues to mesmerize generation after generation of readers. Harriet is an erratic, unsentimental, and endearing prototype--someone very like the woman who dreamed her up, author and artist Louise Fitzhugh. Born in 1928, Fitzhugh was raised in a wealthy home in segregated Memphis, and she escaped her cloistered world and made a beeline for New York as soon as she could. Her expanded milieu stretched from the lesbian bars of Greenwich Village to the dance clubs of Harlem, on to the resurgent artist studios of post-war New York, France, and Italy. Her circle of friends included artists like Maurice Sendak and playwrights like Lorraine Hansberry. In the 1960s, Fitzhugh wrote Harriet the Spy, and in doing so she introduced "new realism" into children's books--she launched a genre of children's books that allowed characters to experience authentic feelings and acknowledged topics that were formerly considered taboo. Fitzhugh's books are full of resistance: to liars, to conformity, to authority, and even (radically, for a children's author) to make-believe. As a commercial children's author and lesbian, Fitzhugh often had to disguise the nature of her most intimate relationships. She lived her life as a dissenter--a friend to underdogs, outsiders, and artists--and her masterpiece remains long after her death to influence and provoke new generations of readers. Harriet is massively influential among girls and women in contemporary culture; she is the missing link between Jo March and Scout Finch, and it's not surprising that writers have thought of her as a kind of patron saint for misfit writers and unfeminine girls. This lively, rich biography brings Harriet's creator into the frame, shedding new light on an extraordinary author and her marvelous creation"--
    Note: Introduction: A nasty girl and horrid example -- Part one. Prologue ; Classified ; Clear and present danger ; Interrogation ; Intelligence ; Best assets ; Master of disguise ; Private investigator -- Part two. Clues ; Rout ; Snoop ; Detect ; Agency ; Agent Harrie ; Divided loyalties -- Part three. Luck, speculation, windfalls ; Tradecraft ; Survey the locality ; Witness -- Afterword
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-58005-770-7
    Language: English
    Subjects: American Studies
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    Keywords: Biografie ; Literary criticism ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Biographies ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Literary criticism ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Biographies
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    The souls of yellow folk : essays (2018)
    New York :W.W. Norton & Company,
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    Format: xiv, 215 Seiten ; , 22 cm.
    Edition: First edition
    ISBN: 978-0-393-24174-7
    Uniform Title: Essays
    Content: "One of the most acclaimed essayists of his generation, Wesley Yang writes about race and sex without the jargon, formulas, and polite lies that bore us all. His powerful debut, The Souls of Yellow Folk, does more than collect a decade's worth of cult-reputation essays -- it corrals new American herds of pickup artists, school shooters, mandarin zombies, and immigrant strivers, and exposes them to scrutiny, empathy, and polemical force.In his celebrated and prescient essay "The Face of Seung-Hui Cho," Yang explores the deranged logic of the Virginia Tech shooter. In his National Magazine Award-winning "Paper Tigers," he explores the intersection of Asian values and the American dream, and the inner torment of the child exposed to "tiger mother" parenting. And in his close reading of New York Magazine's popular Sex Diaries, he was among the first critics to take seriously today's Internet-mediated dating lives.Yang catches these ugly trends early because he has felt at various times implicated in them, and he does not exempt himself from his radical honesty. His essays retain the thrill of discovery, the wary eye of the first explorer, and the rueful admission of the first exposed."--Dust jacket
    Note: The face of Seung-Hui Cho -- , Paper tigers -- , Eddie Huang against the world -- , The life and afterlife of Aaron Swartz -- , The liveliest mind in New York -- , The terrorist search engine -- , On Francis Fukuyama -- , Inside the box -- , On reading the sex diaries -- , Game theory -- , We out here -- , Is it ok to be white? -- , What is white supremacy?
    Language: English
    Subjects: American Studies
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    Keywords: Asiaten ; Einwanderer ; American dream ; Anthologie ; Anthologie
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    Time's arrow & Archimedes' point : new directions for the physics of time (1996)
    New York [u.a.] :Oxford Univ. Press,
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    Format: XIII, 306 S. : graph. Darst.
    ISBN: 0-19-510095-6
    Content: "Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way around? What does quantum mechanics really tell us about the world? In this important and accessible book, Huw Price throws fascinating new light on some of the great mysteries of modern physics, and connects them in a wholly original way." "Price begins with the mystery of the arrow of time. Why, for example, does disorder always increase, as required by the second law of thermodynamics? Price shows that, for over a century, most physicists have thought about these problems the wrong way. Misled by the human perspective from within time, which distorts and exaggerates the differences between past and future, they have fallen victim to what Price calls the "double standard fallacy": proposed explanations of the difference between the past and the future turn out to rely on a difference which has been slipped in at the beginning, when the physicists themselves treat the past and future in different ways. To avoid this fallacy, Price argues, we need to overcome our natural tendency to think about the past and the future differently. We need to imagine a point outside time - an Archimedean "view from nowhen" - from which to observe time in an unbiased way."
    Content: "Price then turns to the greatest mystery of modern physics, the meaning of quantum theory. He argues that in missing the Archimedean viewpoint, modern physics has missed a radical and attractive solution to many of the apparent paradoxes of quantum physics. Many consequences of quantum theory appear counter-intuitive, such as Schrodinger's Cat, whose condition seems undetermined until observed, and Bell's Theorem, which suggests a spooky "nonlocality," where events happening simultaneously in different places seem to affect each other directly. Price shows that these paradoxes can be avoided by allowing that at the quantum level the future does, indeed, affect the past. This demystifies nonlocality, and supports Einstein's unpopular intuition that quantum theory describes an objective world, existing independently of human observers: the Cat is alive or dead, even when nobody looks. So interpreted, Price argues, quantum mechanics is simply the kind of theory we ought to have expected in microphysics - from the symmetric standpoint."--BOOK JACKET
    Language: English
    Subjects: Physics , Philosophy
    RVK:
    UB 7500
    RVK:
    CC 6320
    Keywords: Zeit ; Physik ; Zeitrichtung ; Physik ; Philosophie ; Zeit ; Physik ; Philosophie ; Zeitrichtung ; Einführung ; Einführung ; Einführung
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