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Category Archives: philosophy
Miracles on Wheels – Markusha
In this post, we will see the book Miracles on Wheels: A Book for Inquiring Minds by Anatoly Markusha. About the book: This book has been written not only for budding engineers and mechanics: it is addressed to anyone who is thinking … Continue reading
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Tagged design, education, engineering, hints, history, life pro tips, mathematics, philosophy, problem solving, raduga publishers, rules of thumb, technology, thinking
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Einstein – Kuznetsov
In last few posts, we have seen two books on Einstein and his work (Albert Einstein’s Philosophical Views and The Theory of Relativity and Einstein and the philosophical problems of 20th-century physics). In this post, we will see yet another book … Continue reading
The Riddle Of The Self – Mikhailov
In this post, we will see the book The Riddle Of The Self by F. T. Mikhailov. About the book: The question of consciousness, of its relation to being cannot in principle be reduced to a particular scientific problem of the … Continue reading
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Tagged cognition, cognitive psychology, conciousness, hegel, I, individual, kant, kurshkaya, language, life, mind, mind-body problem, problem, psychology, russell, self, social, something
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Albert Einstein’s Philosophical views and the Theory of Relativity – Gribanov
In this post, we will see the book Albert Einstein’s Philosophical Views and the Theory of Relativity by D. P. Gribanov. This book aims to bring out the place and role of philosophical science in the creation of the theory … Continue reading
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Tagged analysis, classical mechanics, concepts, einstein, einstein studies, frames of reference, general relativity, genesis, history of science, matter, motion, philosophy, philosophy of science, physics, relativity, soviet science, space, special relativity, time
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Einstein and the philosophical problems of 20th-century physics
In this post, we will see the book Einstein and the philosophical problems of 20th-century physics. Many interesting articles are present in the book which would interest a physicist as well as students of history and philosophy of science. About the book: … Continue reading
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Tagged bohr, bridgman, cosmology, einstein, einstein studies, field theory, general relativity, geometry, gravitation, history of science, mach, philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, poincare, quantum mechanics, simultaneity, space, space-time, special relativity, theory of relativity, time
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Energy and Entropy – Alekseev
This title has been quite in demand, and rightly so! This is one of the most wonderful books that I have come across. So here it is!! Energy and Entropy by G. A. Alekseev Back cover of the book says: … Continue reading
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Tagged conversion, energy, entropy, forces, machines, negentropy, thermodynamics
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Little Mathematics Library – Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem
After the last two posts by V. A. Uspenskii (check out his site here) which dealt with Post’s Machine, and Pascal’s Triangle, we now come to another book by him in the Little Mathematics Library series titled Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. … Continue reading
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Tagged algorithms computers, Gödel's proof, godel, incompleteness theorem, logic
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