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“voldemar lestienne”

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  • Alfred North Whitehead, Philosopher of Time

    by Rémy Lestienne ...
    Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), a mathematician and logician by training, was the author of highly original works at the crossroads of science and philosophy which explore the nature of the world around us and its temporal flow.Convinced that everyday terms distort reality, Whitehead invented or borrowed terms more appropriate to his project. The word 'Process', which gives its title to his ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • In The Search For Beauty: Unravelling Non-euclidean Geometry

    by Voldemar Smilga ...
    This is a popular book that chronicles the historical attempts to prove the fifth postulate of Euclid on parallel lines that led eventually to the creation of non-Euclidean geometry. To absorb the mathematical content of the book, the reader should be familiar with the foundations of Euclidean geometry at the high school level. But besides the mathematics, the book is also devoted to stories about ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Wandering Toad

    by Voldemārs Zembergs ...
    Sapo is a Toad, who, unlike other Toad-folk, loves adventure, travelling on trails and pathways that no one has journeyed on for millennia.One day, Sapo's world is turned upside down when his brother, Bufo the Archsage, is kidnapped and taken away by an ancient dragon. This propels Sapo on a dangerous journey to find his brother. Along the way, he befriends Morsol, a brooding Toad soldier living ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time and Science

    In 3 VolumesVolume 1: The Metaphysics of Time and Its EvolutionVolume 2: Life SciencesVolume 3: Physical Sciences and Cosmology

    by Carlo Rovelli, Rémy Lestienne, Paul A Harris ...
    Prominent scientists and philosophers of science address contemporary debates on the nature of Time. Their contributions freely discuss its unity and reality, its compatibility with the orders of classical philosophy (present, past and future) and with the disputed idea of free will (Volume 1). They also present a detailed and updated state of the role of Time in the so-called exact sciences: ... Read more

    $288.09 CAD

  • Time and Science

    Volume 1: The Metaphysics of Time and Its Evolution

    by Carlo Rovelli, Rémy Lestienne, Paul A Harris ...
    In this volume, 12 eminent scientists and philosophers engage in fundamental, perennial questions about time: Does time exist? Is 'time' a single or multiple entity? Is it possible to reconcile contradictory notions of time, such as subjective and objective, metaphysics and physics, McTaggart's A series and B series, or presentism and eternalism? Does the Special Theory of Relativity dictate a ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Advent Of Relativity, The

    by Voldemar Smilga ...
    This popular book on special relativity was first published in Moscow back in 1961 under the Russian title 'Очевидное? Нет, ещё неизведанное', which can be roughly translated as 'Is it evident? No, it's unexplored yet!'This clear exposition of the history of the development of physical ideas which eventually led to the discovery of special relativity is a narration of how physicists, from Galileo, ... Read more

    $59.39 CAD

  • Time and Science

    Volume 3: Physical Sciences and Cosmology

    by Carlo Rovelli, Rémy Lestienne, Paul A Harris ...
    The present volume of Time and Science series is devoted to Physical Sciences and Cosmology. Today more than ever, the question 'is Time an ontological property, a necessary ingredient for the physical description of the world, or a purely epistemological element, relative to our situation in the world?' worry physicists and cosmologists alike. For many of them, Relativity (and particularly ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Time and Science

    In 3 VolumesVolume 1: The Metaphysics of Time and Its EvolutionVolume 2: Life SciencesVolume 3: Physical Sciences and Cosmology

    by Carlo Rovelli, Rémy Lestienne, Paul A Harris ...
    Prominent scientists and philosophers of science address contemporary debates on the nature of Time. Their contributions freely discuss its unity and reality, its compatibility with the orders of classical philosophy (present, past and future) and with the disputed idea of free will (Volume 1). They also present a detailed and updated state of the role of Time in the so-called exact sciences: ... Read more

    $85.79 CAD

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  • The Wholeness of Nature

    Goethe’s Way toward a Science of Conscious Participation in Nature

    by Henri Bortoft ...
    Whereas most readers are familiar with Goethe as a poet and dramatist, few are familiar with his scientific work. In this brilliant book, Henri Bortoft (who began his studies of Goethean science with J. G. Bennett and David Bohm) introduces the fascinating scientific theories of Goethe. He succeeds in showing that Goethe's way of doing science was not a poet's folly but a genuine alternative to ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time

    by Adrian Bardon ...
    Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time-from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond. A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time covers subjects such as time and change, the experience of time, physical and metaphysical approaches to the nature of time, the direction of time, ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Aristotle's Revenge

    The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science

    by Edward Feser ...
    Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle's Revenge argues that these concepts are not only compatible with modern science, but are implicitly presupposed by modern science. Among the many topics covered are the metaphysical presuppositions of scientific method; ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • 50 Philosophy of Science Ideas You Really Need to Know

    by Gareth Southwell ...
    Series series 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series
    Science first began as a branch of philosophy, but it has since grown up and moved out of the family home, and its successes have put its parent in the shade. Thanks to scientific knowledge we have walked on the Moon, cured once-fatal illnesses, and even identified the very building blocks of life and the universe. But it is these very successes that underline the need for philosophy.How much ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD