Higher Speculations

Author : Helge Kragh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191003344
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Higher Speculations written by Helge Kragh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, people have tried to construct 'theories of everything': highly ambitious attempts to understand nature in its totality. This account presents these theories in their historical contexts, from little-known hypotheses from the past to modern developments such as the theory of superstrings, the anthropic principle, and ideas of many universes, and uses them to problematize the limits of scientific knowledge. Do claims to theories of everything belong to science at all? Which are the epistemic standards on which an alleged scientific theory of the universe - or the multiverse - is to be judged? Such questions are currently being discussed by physicists and cosmologists, but rarely within a historical perspective. This book argues that these questions have a history and that knowledge of the historical development of 'higher speculations' may inform and qualify the current debate on the nature and limits of scientific explanation.

Author : De Quincey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speculations written by De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Algernon Ashburner Osborne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speculations on the New York Stock Exchange, September, 1904-March, 1907 written by Algernon Ashburner Osborne and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speculations, Literary and Philosophic written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speculations Literary and Philosophic, with written by Thomas de Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book De Quincey's Works: Speculations literary and philosophic written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas De Quincey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book The Works of Thomas De Quincey: Speculations literary and philosophic written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas De Quincey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey: Speculative and theological essays written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hugh Raffles
Publisher : Verse Chorus Press
ISBN 13 : 1891241745
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Unconformities written by Hugh Raffles and published by Verse Chorus Press. This book was released on 2022-04-18 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present. Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enters these gaps, drawing together threads of geology, history, literature, philosophy, and ethnography to trace the intimate connections between personal loss and world historical events, and to reveal the force of absence at the core of contemporary life. Through deeply researched explorations of Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan's Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived in New York City along with six Inuit adventurers in 1897, Raffles shows how unconformities unceasingly incite human imagination and investigation yet refuse to conform, heal, or disappear. A journey across eons and continents, The Book of Unconformities is also a journey through stone: this most solid, ancient, and enigmatic of materials, it turns out, is as lively, capricious, willful, and indifferent as time itself.

Author : David J. Staley
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421427427
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternative Universities written by David J. Staley and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining the universities of the future. How can we re-envision the university? Too many examples of what passes for educational innovation today—MOOCs especially—focus on transactions, on questions of delivery. In Alternative Universities, David J. Staley argues that modern universities suffer from a poverty of imagination about how to reinvent themselves. Anyone seeking innovation in higher education today should concentrate instead, he says, on the kind of transformational experience universities enact. In this exercise in speculative design, Staley proposes ten models of innovation in higher education that expand our ideas of the structure and scope of the university, suggesting possibilities for what its future might look like. What if the university were designed around a curriculum of seven broad cognitive skills or as a series of global gap year experiences? What if, as a condition of matriculation, students had to major in three disparate subjects? What if the university placed the pursuit of play well above the acquisition and production of knowledge? By asking bold "What if?" questions, Staley assumes that the university is always in a state of becoming and that there is not one "idea of the university" to which all institutions must aspire. This book specifically addresses those engaged in university strategy—university presidents, faculty, policy experts, legislators, foundations, and entrepreneurs—those involved in what Simon Marginson calls "university making." Pairing a critique tempered to our current moment with an explanation of how change and disruption might contribute to a new "golden age" for higher education, Alternative Universities is an audacious and essential read.