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The Blind Spot
Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
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Artikel-Nr:
9780262048804
Veröffentl:
2024
Erscheinungsdatum:
05.03.2024
Seiten:
307
Autor:
Adam Frank
Gewicht:
564 g
Format:
234x159x34 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Adam Frank is the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester and a winner of the Carl Sagan Medal. He is the author of Light of the Stars. Marcelo Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy at Dartmouth, the 2019 Templeton Prize laureate, and author of seven widely translated books, most recently The Dawn of a Mindful Universe.Evan Thompson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author or coauthor of five books in cognitive science and philosophy, including The Embodied Mind (MIT Press).
"An argument for the inclusion of the human perspective within science and how it makes science possible"--
Contents An Introduction to the Blind Spot ixI How Did We Get Here? A Guide for the Perplexed 1 The Surreptitious Substitution: Philosophical Origins of the Blind Spot 3 2 The Ascending Spiral of Abstraction: Scientific Origins of the Blind Spot 27II Cosmos 3 Time 55 4 Matter 81 5 Cosmology 109III Life and Mind 6 Life 141 7 Cognition 163 8 Consciousness 181IV The Planet 9 Earth 225 Afterword 251 Acknowledgments 257 Notes 259 Index 293