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The crisis in physics / Christopher Caudwell ; edited with an introducion by Professor H. Levy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sprigg, C. St. John (Christopher St. John), 1907-1937, author.
- Series:
- Radical thinkers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physics--Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 243 pages. ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Verso Books, [2017]
- Contents:
- Chapter I From Newton to Einstein 3
- The New School in Physics
- Newton's Universe
- The Wave Theory of Light
- The Beginning of the Crisis
- Realtive and Absolute Motion
- The Special Principle of Relativity
- Unity and Atomicity
- The General Principle of Relativity
- Chapter II The World as Machine 22
- Revolution and Mysticism
- The Metaphysics of Science
- The Economic Crisis
- Matter and Mechanism
- The World of Bourgeois Society
- The World as Machine
- The Machine as Slave
- The Bourgeois as Owner
- Class and World-View
- The Matter
- The Shattering of a World-View
- The Sharing of Matter
- The Wild World
- World-View and Social Change
- Chapter III Man As Idea 55
- The Generation of Idealism
- The Advance to Dialectics
- The Explosion of Theory
- Reality as Appearance
- The Screen of Phenomena
- The Re-Discovery of the Object 55
- Chapter IV The Distortion of Philosophy 76
- The Monopoly of Consiousness
- Primitive Materialism
- The Cosmic Market
- God-making
- Nature and the Slave-owner
- Chapter V The Collapse of Determinism
- The Problem of Freewill
- The Principle of Indeterminism
- The Sanction of Determinism
- From God to Man
- The Transition to Idealism
- Chapter VI The Meaning of Causality 108
- Causality not Determinism
- The Meaning of Freedom
- Spirit and Substance
- The Flux of Phenomena
- The Movement of Logic
- Chapter VII 131
- 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 VIII 148
- Chapter IX 155
- Chapter X 169
- Chapter XI 193
- Chapter XII 211.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1786634600
- 9781786634603
- OCLC:
- 1021222926
- Publisher Number:
- 99975372119
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