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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Cosmology, Physics and Philosophy
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From Physics to Philosophical Crossroads and Back
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From Physics to Cosmological Crossroads and Back
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Beyond Present Knowledge
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Critique of Western Thought
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About this book
by Sir Karl Popper This is a great book, and an exciting book. I say so even though I happen to dis agree with the author in many minor points and one or two major points. Some of the minor points are merely terminological, and therefore very minor. I dislike the term 'dialectic', because of its use since Hegel and Marx; and I dislike the term 'gravitism', perhaps without a good reason. Thus I dislike the name which Professor Gal-Or has given to his theory. But the theory seems to me a great and a very beauti ful theory, so far as I can judge. Other minor points of disagreement are connected with Gal-Or's original and remarkable views of the great philosophers, including Spinoza and Kant. A major point of disagreement is that Gal-Or, following Einstein, is a scientific determinist, while I cannot but regard determinism as a modem super stition. Of course, he may be right and I may be completely mistaken. I mention these critical points rather in order to emphasize how strongly I am impressed by Professor Gal-Or's great book. Even in the very unlikely case that, wherever we disagree, he should be in the wrong and I right, even if that should be the case (which is improbable in the extreme), it would remain a great book: readable, worth reading and enlightening; with a most fascinating cosmological story of time, expansion, and gravitation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cosmology, Physics and Philosophy
Authors: Benjamin Gal-Or
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1149-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: David Levy 1983
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-1149-3Published: 18 April 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 522
Number of Illustrations: 86 b/w illustrations
Topics: Physics, general, Mathematics, general