Einstein, Tagore and the Nature of Reality

ISBN-13: 9780367737016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 238 str.

Partha Ghose

Opis

The nature of reality has been a long-debated issue among scientists and philosophers. In 1930, Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein had a long conversation on the nature of reality. This conversation has been widely quoted and discussed by scientists, philosophers and scholars from the literary world. The important question that Tagore and E

Spis treści

Introduction Kathleen M. O’Connell  1. Einstein, the Reality of Space and the Action-Reaction Principle Harvey R. Brown and Dennis Lehmkuhl  2. The Hole Argument and the Nature of Spacetime: A Critical Review from a Constructivist Perspective Tian Yu Cao  3. Quantum Information and Reality, Especially the Reality of the Past and Future Charles H. Bennett  4. Einstein and Tagore, Newton and Blake, Everett and Bohr: The Dual Nature of Reality Anthony Sudbery  5. Toward Relational Reality: From Einstein and Tagore to Gaudiya Vaishnava Vedanta Ravi V. Gomatam  6. Science, Poiesis and Visions of Reality Tushar K. Sarkar  7. Physical Reality and the Unobservables of Physical Nature C. S. Unnikrishnan  8. High-Energy Physics and Post-Empiricism K. Sridhar  9. Cognitive Constraints on the Perception of Reality Avi Chaudhuri  10. Embodied Cognition and the Constructivist View of Reality Partha Ghose  11. Incompleteness Theorems and Realities: A Tale of Three Great Thinkers Mihir Kr. Chakraborty  Appendix 1 Einstein-Tagore conversation on the Nature of Reality  Appendix 2 Einstein-Tagore conversation on Youth, Causality and Music

O autorze

Partha Ghose is an Honorary Scientist at The National Academy of Sciences, India