Böcker av Friedel Weinert

This book is the first all-encompassing exploration of the role of demons inphilosophical and scientific thought experiments. Part III introduces Maxwell's Demon, who - by contrast - experiences a world that is probabilistic and indeterministic. The book investigates what these Demons - and others - can and cannot tell us about our world.

This interdisciplinary study surveys the evolution of our changing conceptions of time, organizing coverage around the central themes of cosmology and regularity, stasis and flux, symmetry and asymmetry. Defends a dynamic, rather than a static view of time.

Clearly written and well illustrated, the book first places the scientist-philosophers in the limelight as we learn how their great scientific discoveries forced them to reconsider the time-honored notions with which science had described the natural world.

Scientific ideas change the way we think about the world and our place in it. Nicolaus Copernicus developed a heliocentric view of the cosmos that displaced humans from the physical center of the universe. Charles Darwin developed an evolutionary theory that placed humans firmly within the organismic order of nature.