Avrum Stroll menerima tradisi kuno bahwa salah satu tugas filsafat adalah memberikan penjelasan akurat tentang ciri-ciri dunia, baik yang bernyawa maupun yang tidak bernyawa. Namun, ia berpendapat, karena ciri-ciri ini sangat kompleks, tidak ada satu teori atau model konseptual pun yang dapat memberikan penjelasan yang lengkap. Pendekatan Stroll bersifat sepotong-sepotong dan berorientasi pada …
This book reflects the resurgence of interest in the quantum properties of black holes, culminating most recently in controversial discussions about firewalls. On the thermodynamic side, it describes how new developments allowed the inclusion of pressure/volume terms in the first law, leading to a new understanding of black holes as chemical systems, experiencing novel phenomena such as triple …
In its analysis of the archaeologies and histories of the northern fringe of Europe, this book provides a focus on animistic–shamanistic cosmologies and the associated human–environment relations from the Neolithic to modern times