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Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection

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  1. Diederik Aerts

    1. Center Leo Apostel, Brussels Free University, Brussels, Belgium

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  2. Jan Broekaert

    1. Center Leo Apostel, Brussels Free University, Brussels, Belgium

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  3. Ernest Mathijs

    1. Center Leo Apostel, Brussels Free University, Brussels, Belgium

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Einstein Meets Magritte: The Scholar, the Muse and the Barfly

    • Diederik Aerts
    Pages 1-9

  3. Basically, It’s Purely Academic

    • John Ziman
    Pages 11-27

  4. The Manifest Image and the Scientific Image

    • Bas C. van Fraassen
    Pages 29-52

  5. Microdynamics of Incommensurability: Philosophy of Science Meets Science Studies

    • Barbara Herrnstein Smith
    Pages 53-77

  6. Subjects, Objects, Data and Values

    • Robert M. Pirsig
    Pages 79-98

  7. Einstein and Magritte. A study of Creativity

    • Ilya Prigogine
    Pages 99-105

  8. Quanta and Relativity: Two Failed Revolutions

    • Constantin Piron
    Pages 107-112

  9. The Redundancy of Spacetime: Relativity from Cusa to Einstein

    • Rom Harré
    Pages 113-128

  10. The Stuff the World is Made of: Physics and Reality

    • Diederik Aerts
    Pages 129-183

  11. Dasein’s Brain: Phenomenology Meets Cognitive Science

    • Francisco Varela
    Pages 185-197

  12. What Creativity in Science and Art Tell Us about How the Brain Must Work

    • William H. Calvin
    Pages 199-218

  13. The Hermeneutic Versus the Scientific Conception of Psychoanalysis: An Unsuccessful Effort to Chart a Via Media for the Human Sciences

    • Adolf Grünbaum
    Pages 219-239

  14. Immortality, Biology, Computers

    • Zygmunt Bauman
    Pages 241-253

  15. The End of Certainty in Economics

    • W. Brian Arthur
    Pages 255-265

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 267-274
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Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection presents insights of the renowned key speakers of the interdisciplinary Einstein meets Magritte conference (1995, Brussels Free University). The contributions elaborate on fundamental questions of science, with regard to the contemporary world, and push beyond the borders of traditional approaches. All of the articles in this volume address this fundamental theme, but somewhere along the road the volume expanded to become much more than a mere expression of the conference's dynamics. The articles not only deal with several scientific disciplines, they also confront these fields with the full spectrum of contemporary life, and become new science. As such, this volume presents a state-of-the-art reflection of science in the world today, in all its diversity. The contributions are accessible to a large audience of scientists, students, educators, and everyone who wants to keep up with science today.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center Leo Apostel, Brussels Free University, Brussels, Belgium

    Diederik Aerts, Jan Broekaert, Ernest Mathijs

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