Worlds without end

Rubriek: Textual/Printed/Reference Materials - Boek

Prijs: € 13.99

Rating: 0/5

☆

☆

☆

☆

☆

Verzending:
Direct beschikbaar

“Multiverse" cosmologies imagine our universe as just one of a vast number of others. While this idea has captivated philosophy, religion, and literature for millennia, it is now being considered as a scientific hypothesis—with different models emerging from cosmology, quantum mechanics, and string theory.

Beginning with ancient Atomist and Stoic philosophies, Mary-Jane Rubenstein links contemporary models of the multiverse to their forerunners and explores their current emergence. One reason is the so-called fine-tuning of the universe: nature"s constants are so delicately calibrated, it seems they have been set just right to allow life to emerge. For some theologians, these “fine-tunings" are proof of God; for others, “God" is an insufficient explanation. One compelling solution: if all possible worlds exist somewhere, then it is no surprise one of them happens to be suitable for life. Yet this hypothesis replaces God with an equally baffling article of faith: the existence of universes beyond, before, or after our own, eternally generated yet forever inaccessible. In sidestepping metaphysics, multiverse scenarios collide with it, producing their own counter-theological narratives. Rubenstein argues, however, that this interdisciplinary collision provides the condition of its scientific viability, reconfiguring the boundaries among physics, philosophy, and religion.

• 1 Bekijk alle specificaties

Strange Wonder

Rating: 0 / 5 | Prijs: € 28.99

Strange wonder confronts western philosophy s ambivalent relationship to the platonic wonder that reveals the strangeness of the everyday on the one hand this wonder is said to be the origin of all philosophy on the other hand it is associated with a kind of ignorance that ought to be extingui 2 - 3 weken .. MEER INFO

Pantheologies

Rating: 0 / 5 | Prijs: € 18.99

pantheism is the idea that god and the world are identical that the creator sustainer destroyer and transformer of all things is the universe itself from a monotheistic perspective this notion is irremediably heretical since it suggests divinity might be material mutable and multiple sinc Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Pantheologies

Rating: 0 / 5 | Prijs: € 25.08

Mary jane rubenstein provides a conceptual genealogy of pantheisms what makes pantheism monstrous at once repellent and seductive is that it scrambles the raced and gendered distinctions that western philosophy and theology insist on drawing between activity and passivity spirit and matt Uiterlijk 6 december in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: E-book

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 28 januari 2014

Aantal pagina's: 360

Ebook Formaat: Adobe ePub

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Hoofduitgeverij: Columbia University Press

Lees dit ebook op: Android (smartphone en tablet)

Lees dit ebook op: Kobo e-reader

Lees dit ebook op: Desktop (Mac en Windows)

Lees dit ebook op: iOS (smartphone en tablet)

Lees dit ebook op: Windows (smartphone en tablet)

Editie: 1

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Studieboek: Nee

EAN: 9780231527422

---