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The order of time [sound recording] / by Rovelli, Carlo,1956-author.(CARDINAL)353586; Cumberbatch, Benedict,1976-narrator.(CARDINAL)357183;
Read by Benedict Cumberbatch.Presents an accessible exploration of the nature of time that illuminates the questions debated by physicists and philosophers, challenging assumptions that time is linear or even measurable while explaining the critical role of perception.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Sound recordings.; Space and time.; Time.; Presentism (Philosophy); Cosmology.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The order of time / by Rovelli, Carlo,1956-author.(CARDINAL)353586; Segre, Erica,translator.(CARDINAL)353589; Carnell, Simon,1962-translator.(CARDINAL)353590;
Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike.--Preface : perhaps time is the greatest remaining mystery -- The crumbling of time -- Loss of unity -- Loss of direction -- The end of the present -- Loss of independence -- Quanta of time -- The world without time -- The world is made of events, not things -- The inadequacy of grammar -- Dynamics as relation -- The sources of time -- Time is ignorance -- Perspective -- What emerges from a particularity -- The scent of the madeleine -- The source of time.Includes bibliographical references and index.1040L
Subjects: Space and time.; Time.; Presentism (Philosophy); Cosmology.;
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The order of time [large print] / by Rovelli, Carlo,1956-author.(CARDINAL)353586; Segre, Erica,translator.(CARDINAL)353589; Carnell, Simon,1962-translator.(CARDINAL)353590;
Includes bibliographical references.Preface : perhaps time is the greatest remaining mystery -- The crumbling of time -- Loss of unity -- Loss of direction -- The end of the present -- Loss of independence -- Quanta of time -- The world without time -- The world is made of events, not things -- The inadequacy of grammar -- Dynamics as relation -- The sources of time -- Time is ignorance -- Perspective -- What emerges from a particularity -- The scent of the madeleine -- The source of time."Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike"--
Subjects: Large print books.; Space and time.; Time.; Presentism (Philosophy); Cosmology.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Longpath : becoming the great ancestors our future needs : an antidote for short-termism / by Wallach, Ari,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-188).Living: What longpath is and why we need it -- Changing: How what worked then won't work now -- Practicing: Looking backward, inward, and forward -- Creating: Futures and how we make them -- Flourishing: working together for a better world."From Ari Wallach, futurist, writer, and founder of Longpath Labs, comes a radical book on changing our mindsets from short-term, reactionary thinking to long-term, holistic thinking to becoming the ancestors our future needs"--
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Mindfulness (Psychology); Presentism (Philosophy); Caring.; Time perception.; Forecasting.; Future, The.;
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Breaking bread with the dead : a reader's guide to a more tranquil mind / by Jacobs, Alan,1958-author.(CARDINAL)347646;
"W.H. Auden once wrote that "art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead." In his brilliant and compulsively readable new treatise BREAKING BREAD WITH THE DEAD, distinguished professor and author Alan Jacobs shows us that engaging with the great writings of the past might help us live less anxiously in the present. Today we are battling too much information, a society changing at lightning speed, algorithms aimed at shaping our every move, and a sense that history is not a resource, only something to be vanquished. The modern solution to our problems is turn inwards, to surround ourselves only with that which is like us. Jacobs' answer is just the opposite: to be in conversation with, and to be challenged by, the great thinkers of the past. What can Homer teach us about force? What does Frederick Douglass have to say about our difficulties with the Founding Fathers? And what can we learn from modern authors who are doing this work? How can Ursula K. Le Guin teach us to see the women of the canon differently? BREAKING BREAD WITH THE DEAD is a close reading with a gifted scholar of texts from across the ages, including the work of Amitav Ghosh, Anita Desai, Henrik Ibsen, Jean Rhys, Simone Weil, Edith Wharton, Claude Levi-Strauss, Italo Calvino, and many more. By agreeing to a conversation with the past, we can draw on more wisdom than the modern consciousness offers"--Presentism and temporal bandwidth -- Table fellowship -- The sins of the past -- The past without difference -- The authentic kernel -- The boy in the library -- The stoics' moment -- The view from the doll's house -- The poet on the Strand.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Literary criticism.; Instructional and educational works.; Self-help publications.; Literature and society.; Social problems in literature.; Anxiety in literature.; Presentism (Philosophy);
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A pluralistic universe : Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the present situation in philosophy. by James, William,1842-1910.(CARDINAL)137752;
Subjects: Philosophy, Modern.;
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The conditions of philosophy : its checkered past, its present disorder, and its future promise / by Adler, Mortimer J.(Mortimer Jerome),1902-2001.(CARDINAL)141512;
Bibliographical footnotes.
Subjects: Philosophy.;
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The modern renaissance in American art, presenting the work and philosophy of 54 distinguished artists. by Pearson, Ralph M.,1883-1958.(CARDINAL)563479;
Subjects: Artists; Art, Modern;
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The basic writings of Bertrand Russell / by Russell, Bertrand,1872-1970.(CARDINAL)141633;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Autobiographical asides -- My religious reminiscences -- My mental development -- Adaptation: an autobiographical epitome -- Why I took to philosophy -- The Nobel Prize winning man of letters (essayist and short story writer) -- How I write -- A free man's worship -- An outline of intellectual rubbish: a hilarious catalogue of organized and individual stupidity -- The metaphysician's nightmare -- The philosopher of language -- Language -- Sentences, syntax, and parts of speech -- The uses of language -- The cult of "common usage" -- The logician and philosopher of mathematics -- Symbolic logic -- On induction -- Preface to Principia mathematica -- Introduction to Principia mathematica -- Summary of part III, Principia mathematica -- Summary of part IV, Principia mathematica -- Summary of part V, Principia mathematica -- Summary of part VI, Principia mathematica -- Introduction to the second edition, Principia mathematica -- Mathematics and logic -- The validity of inference -- Dewey's new logic -- John Dewey -- The epistemologist -- Knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge -- By description -- Theory of knowledge -- Epistemological premisses -- The metaphysician -- Materialism, past and present -- Language and metaphysics -- The retreat from Pythagoras -- Historian of philosophy -- Philosophy in the twentieth century -- Aristotle's logic -- St Thomas Aquinas -- Currents of thought in the nineteenth century -- The philosophy of logical analysis -- The psychologist -- Psychological and physical causal laws -- Truth and falsehood -- Knowledge behaviouristically considered -- The moral philosopher -- Styles in ethics -- The place of sex among human values -- Individual and social ethics -- "What I believe" -- The expanding mental universe -- The philosopher of education -- Education -- The aims of education -- Emotion and discipline -- The functions of a teacher -- The philosopher of politics -- The reconciliation of individuality and citizenship -- Philosophy and politics -- Politically important desires -- Why I am not a communist -- The philosopher in the field of economics -- Property -- Dialectical materialism -- The theory of surplus value -- The philosopher of history -- On history -- The materialistic theory of history -- History as an art -- The philosopher of culture: East and West -- Chinese and Western civilization contrasted -- Eastern and Western ideals of happiness -- The philosopher of religion -- The essence of religion -- What is an agnostic? -- Why I am not a Christian -- Can religion cure our troubles? -- The philosopher and expositor of science -- Physics and neutral monism -- Science and education -- Limitations of scientific method -- The new physics and relativity -- Science and values -- Non-demonstrative inference -- The analyst of international affairs -- The taming of power -- If we are to survive this dark time -- What would help mankind most? -- Current perplexities -- World government -- The next half-century -- Life without fear -- Science and human life -- Open letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev -- Man's peril -- Methods of settling disputes in the nuclear age.An anthology of essays written by British philosopher Bertrand Russell between 1903 and 1959, including his thoughts on language, epistemology, metaphysics, politics, education, and other topics.
Subjects: In Memory of C. J. Nelson presented by Brenda Parker.; Philosophy.;
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A history of western philosophy, and its connection with political and social circumstances from the earliest times to the present day. by Russell, Bertrand,1872-1970.(CARDINAL)141633;
Subjects: Philosophy;
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