The Crisis in Physics

Höfundur: Christopher Caudwell (Útgáfa: 0)
The Crisis in Physics

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Christopher Caudwell's The Crisis in Physics is a stylish and readable analysis of the lines of connection between scientific theories and economic realities. Caudwell provides a trenchant critique of mechanism and positivism. In the words of J. B. S. Haldane, The Crisis in Physics offers a 'quarry of ideas' for future philosophers: a wealth of insights and arguments that demand and deserve continuing critical reflection.

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Verso
ISBN
9781786634610
Print ISBN
9781786634603
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
0
Höfundar
Christopher Caudwell
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2018-01-23
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
10
Afritunar takmörkun
10

Kaflar

  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: From Newton to Einstein
  • 1. The New School in Physics
  • 2. Newton’s Universe
  • 3. The Wave Theory of Light
  • 4. The Beginning of the Crisis
  • 5. Relative and Absolute Motion
  • 6. The Special Principle of Relativity
  • 7. Unity and Atomicity
  • 8. The General Principle of Relativity
  • Chapter Two: The World as Machine
  • 1. Revolution and Mysticism
  • 2. The Metaphysics of Science
  • 3. The Economic Crisis
  • 4. Matter and Mechanism
  • 5. The World of Bourgeois Society
  • 6. The World as Machine
  • 7. The Machine as Slave
  • 8. The Bourgeois as Owner
  • 9. Class and World-View
  • 10. The Shattering of a World-View
  • 11. The Sharing of Matter
  • 12. The Wild World
  • 13. World-View and Social Change
  • Chapter Three: Man as Idea
  • 1. The Generation of Idealism
  • 2. The Advance to Dialectics
  • 3. The Explosion of Theory
  • 4. Reality as Appearance
  • 5. The Screen of Phenomena
  • 6. The Re-Discovery of the Object
  • Chapter Four: The Distortion of Philosophy
  • 1. The Monopoly of Consciousness
  • 2. Primitive Materialism
  • 3. The Cosmic Market
  • 4. God-Making
  • 5. Nature and the Slave-Owner
  • Chapter Five: The Collapse of Determinism
  • 1. The Problem of Freewill
  • 2. The Principle of Indeterminism
  • 3. The Sanction of Determinism
  • 4. From God to Man
  • 5. The Transition to Idealism
  • Chapter Six: The Meaning of Causality
  • 1. Causality not Determinism
  • 2. The Meaning of Freedom
  • 3. Spirit and Substance
  • 4. The Flux of Phenomena
  • 5. The Movement of Logic
  • Chapter Seven: Bell and earth—Universal determinism … contradictory to causality?—Like and unlike—Time and Space—Mutually determining—Modern views: Probability (accident)—Determinism—Causality— Freedom—Iron bourgeois determinism—Freedom: ignorance of necessity
  • Chapter Eight
  • Chapter Nine
  • Chapter Ten
  • Chapter Eleven
  • Chapter Twelve
  • Index