Research Catalog

Title

Philosophy of space and time and the inner constitution of nature : a phenomenological study / by Michael Whiteman.

Author

Whiteman, Michael.

Publication

London : Allen & Unwin ; New York : Humanities Press, [1967]

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Details

Description

436 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

"A mathematician who is also a mystic is exceptionally well qualified to survey the mysterious subject of space and time. Dr. Whiteman, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cape Town University and author of The Mystical Life, brings the mathematician's detachment and the mystic's insight to this book and presents the most thorough treatment of space and time yet seen. For the expert he provides an indispensable texbook likely to stand unchallenged for many years; for the intelligent layman, an opening into an absorbing field of knowledge, in a world where religious beliefs about the nature of the universe have lost their authority, but interest in the infinite is at its greatest. Special topics include analysis of perception and measurement, 'the sixfold space-conceptuality', varieties of time awareness and control, interpretation of the theory of relativity and quantum theory, cosmological measurement and representation, and a critique of philosophies of nature from 1600 A.D. to the present day."--inside front flap.

Series Statement

Muirhead library of philosophy

Uniform Title

Muirhead library of philosophy.

Subject

• Physics > Philosophy
• Space and time
• Philosophy of nature
• Phenomenology
• phenomenology
• Philosophy of nature
• Phenomenology
• Physics > Philosophy
• Space and time
• Relativity
• Space-time functions

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

LCCN

67030066

OCLC

• ocm00531014
• 531014
• SCSB-385088

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library