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Cosmology, Physics and Philosophy

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  • © 1983

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  1. Benjamin Gal-Or
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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Cosmology, Physics and Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Benjamin Gal-Or
      Pages 2-72

  4. From Physics to Philosophical Crossroads and Back

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
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    2. The Arrows of Time

      • Benjamin Gal-Or
      Pages 214-253

    3. The Crisis in Quantum Physics

      • Benjamin Gal-Or
      Pages 254-276

  5. From Physics to Cosmological Crossroads and Back

    1. Front Matter

      Pages N5-N5
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    2. Cosmology, Physics and Philosophy

      • Benjamin Gal-Or
      Pages 277-307

    3. Cosmological Origin of Time and Evolution

      • Benjamin Gal-Or
      Pages 308-328

    4. Black Holes and the Unification of Asymmetries

      • Benjamin Gal-Or
      Pages 329-347

  6. Beyond Present Knowledge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 348-348
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    2. Havayism — The Science of the Whole

      • Benjamin Gal-Or
      Pages 349-418

  7. Critique of Western Thought

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 419-419
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    2. Introduction

      • Benjamin Gal-Or
      Pages 420-435

    3. A Few Historical Remarks on Time, Mind, and Symmetry

      • Benjamin Gal-Or
      Pages 437-454

    4. The Philosophy of Time & Change: Some Historical Notions

      • Benjamin Gal-Or
      Pages 455-466
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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

  • 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

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