Metadebates on Science: The Blue Book of "Einstein Meets Magritte" - Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society 1999 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Description for Sales People: Title is also available as part of a set: The Evolution of Complexity (978-0-7923-5765-0) Table of Contents: General Introduction. Acknowledgments. Editorial Introduction: Harmony in Chaos; G. C. Cornelis. Was Einstein a philosopher? Deduction vs. induction, the end of certitude and conventialism; A. Adam. Einstein, ethics and action; D. Fawkes. Cognitive science: two cultures or one; M. W. Bielecki. Godel's theorem and strong AI: is reason blind? B. Voorhees. What about the modernistic concept of consciousness? S. Langenberg. Mind, nature and the emerging science of change: an introduction to metamorphology; J. Wilk. On cognitive and social dimensions of science: constructivism and nonlinear dynamics; W. H. Herfel. Necessity of a new paradigm in experimental research taking into accont space and time; C. Capel-Boute, A. Koeckelenbergh. Biomedical applications of magnetic fluids as a specific interdisciplinary problem; V. S. Lazarev, et al. Cosmology and proliferation; G. C. Cornelis. Resonance as a unifying principle between the observer and the observed; P. J. Lewi. Early Greek thought and perspectives for the interpretation of quantum mechanics; K. Verelst, B. Coecke. Landscapes of sibylline strangeness: complementarity, quantum measurement and classical physics; A. Plotnitsky. Metalinguistic views of quantum mechanics and its formalizability; L. Lofgren. Quantum truth, non-separability and reality; E. Giannetto. Soliton waves vs. the particle paradigm: the elementary nature of the physical world; G. Hunter. Which side Spinoza would have taken (between Einstein and Bohr) if he had lived to see the scientific' development of our days: an analysis of human representation of physical reality; D. Nesher. General relativity and quantum theory - ontological investigations; S. Weinstein. From quantal to material level; E. Hemmerlin. On the origin of probabilities in quantum mechanics; D. Aerts, et al. Index."Publisher Marketing: How do scientists approach science? Scientists, sociologists and philosophers were asked to write on this problem and to display their results at the International Congress Einstein Meets Magritte. The outcome of their effort can be found here, presenting all kinds of different views on science. Quantum mechanics is a discipline which deserves and receives special attention in this book. This collection not only contains articles on the introductory level, it also provides bold, even provocative proposals. The contributions have been written for a broad interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students.