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008			141129s2014 enk o 001 0 eng d
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020			_a9781316129289 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aBD511 _b.S564 2014
049			_aNTA
100	1		_aUnger, Roberto Mangabeira. _e1
245	1	0	_aThe Singular Universe and the Reality of Time _bA Proposal in Natural Philosophy. _c
260			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c(c)2014.
300			_a1 online resource (568 pages)
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505	0	0	_aCover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; The nature and scope of this work; Part I Roberto Mangabeira Unger; 1 The science of the one universe in time ; The singular existence of the universe; The inclusive reality of time; The selective realism of mathematics; The first cosmological fallacy; The second cosmological fallacy; Causality without laws; 2 The context and consequences of the argument ; The argument and recent physics and cosmology; The argument and the physics of the first half of the twentieth century; The argument and natural history
505	0	0	_aThe argument and social and historical studyReinventing natural philosophy; What is at stake; 3 The singular existence of the universe ; The conception of the singular existence of the universe introduced; Arguments for the singular existence of the universe; Implications for the agenda of cosmology; The finite and the infinite at the beginning of the universe; The initial conditions of the history of the universe; The unexplained constants of nature; 4 The inclusive reality of time ; The problem presented: how much of nature exists in time?; The argument in science and natural philosophy
505	0	0	_aTime as the transformation of transformationAttributes of time: non-emergent, global, irreversible, and continuous; The proto-ontological assumptions of this view of time; The idea of the inclusive reality of time restated; From being to becoming; 5 The mutability of the laws of nature ; Changing laws; The conundrum of the meta-laws; The problem of causation in the early universe revisited; The best hope for resolving the conundrum of the meta-laws; From speculative conception to empirical inquiry; Implications of the inclusive reality of time for some fundamental ideas
505	0	0	_a6 The selective realism of mathematics The problem; Mathematics as discovery and mathematics as invention; The attributes of mathematics; A natural-evolutionary conjecture; The history of mathematics reconsidered: soaring above the world without escaping it; The history of mathematics reconsidered: right and wrong in Hilbert's program; A deflationary and naturalistic view of mathematics; Part II Lee Smolin; 1 Cosmology in crisis ; The crisis introduced; Temporal naturalism; Naturalism is an ethical stance; 2 Principles for a cosmological theory ; The roots of relationalism
505	0	0	_aThe Newtonian paradigmThe failure of the Newtonian paradigm when applied to cosmology; The failure of the Newtonian paradigm to satisfy the principles for a cosmological theory; The failure of the Newtonian paradigm for elementary events; Reductionism and its limits; The uniqueness of fundamental events; Relationalism and its limits: relational versus intrinsic properties; Two relational paths to general relativity: Einstein and shape dynamics; Relational purism; Impure relationalism: a role for intrinsic properties; Dynamical pairings and relational versus intrinsic properties
500			_aThe Newtonian paradigm from the viewpoint of temporal naturalism
520	0		_aRoberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin argue for a revolution in our cosmological ideas. Ideal for non-scientists, physicists and cosmologists.
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650		0	_aCosmology.
650		0	_aCosmology _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aConsciousness.
650		0	_aScience _xPhilosophy.
650		4	_aConsciousness.
650		4	_aCosmology.
650		4	_aScience.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aSmolin, Lee, _d1955-
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=856055&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell