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Einstein meets Magritte : an interdisciplinary reflection : the white book of "Einstein meets Magritte"

Diederik Aerts, Jan Broekaert, Ernest Mathijs

Published Jan 1, 1999• 6 citations

Abstract

Introduction. 1. Einstein meets Magritte: The Scholar, the Muse and the Barfly D. Aerts. 2. Basically, It's Purely Academic J. Ziman. 3. The Manifest Image and the Scientific Image B.C. van Fraassen. 4. Microdynamics of Incommensurability: Philosophy of Science Meets Science Studies B. Hernstein Smith. 5. Subjects, Objects, Data and Values R.M. Pirsig. 6. Einstein and Magritte. A Study of Creativity I. Prigogine. 7. Quanta and Relativity: Two Failed Revolutions C. Piron. 8. The Redundancy of Spacetime: Relativity from Cusa to Einstein R. Harre. 9. The Stuff the World is Made of: Physics and Reality D. Aerts. 10. Dasein's Brain: Phenomenology Meets Cognitive Science F.J. Varela. 11. What Creativity in Science and Art Tell Us about How the Brain Must Work W.H. Calvin. 12. The Hermeneutic versus the Scientific Conception of Psychoanalysis: an Unsuccesful Effort to Chart a via media for the Human Sciences A. Grunbaum. 13. Immortality, Biology, Computers Z. Bauman. 14. The End of Certainty in Economics W.B. Arthur.

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Introduction. 1. Einstein meets Magritte: The Scholar, the Muse and the Barfly D. Aerts. 2. Basically, It's Purely Academic J. Ziman. 3. The Manifest Image and the Scientific Image B.C. van Fraassen. 4. Microdynamics of Incommensurability: Philosophy of Science Meets Science Studies B. Hernstein Smith. 5. Subjects, Objects, Data and Values R.M. Pirsig. 6. Einstein and Magritte. A Study of Creativity I. Prigogine. 7. Quanta and Relativity: Two Failed Revolutions C. Piron. 8. The Redundancy of Spacetime: Relativity from Cusa to Einstein R. Harre. 9. The Stuff the World is Made of: Physics and Reality D. Aerts. 10. Dasein's Brain: Phenomenology Meets Cognitive Science F.J. Varela. 11. What Creativity in Science and Art Tell Us about How the Brain Must Work W.H. Calvin. 12. The Hermeneutic versus the Scientific Conception of Psychoanalysis: an Unsuccesful Effort to Chart a via media for the Human Sciences A. Grunbaum. 13. Immortality, Biology, Computers Z. Bauman. 14. The End of Certainty in Economics W.B. Arthur.

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The book focuses on the epistemological and foundational dimension of the thought of Albert Einstein, who devoted some deep – but largely underrated – papers to the analysis of crucial issues in the philosophy of science. The analysis of the Einsteinian texts is then compared to his view of physical thought and also to some open problems in the epistemological foundations of quantum mechanics, a theory that Einstein contributed to construct but toward which he always manifested a deeply critical stance by the conceptual point of view.

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