Friedel Weinert: 2 books
The March of Time
Evolving Conceptions of Time in the Light of Scientific Discoveries
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
The aim of this interdisciplinary study is to reconstruct the evolution of our changing conceptions of time in the light of scientific discoveries. It will adopt a new perspective and organize the material around three central themes, which run through our history of time reckoning: cosmology and...
The Demons of Science
What They Can and Cannot Tell Us About Our World
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
This book is the first all-encompassing exploration of the role of demons in philosophical and scientific thought experiments. In Part I, the author explains the importance of thought experiments in science and philosophy. Part II considers Laplace’s Demon, whose claim is that the world is completely...