书目名称 | The Map and the Territory |
副标题 | Exploring the Founda |
编辑 | Shyam Wuppuluri,Francisco Antonio Doria |
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概述 | With a foreword by Sir Roger Penrose and an afterword by Dagfinn Follesdal.Asks deep questions and provides many stimulating answers.Provides complimentary viewpoints of an eminent cast of authors fro |
丛书名称 | The Frontiers Collection |
图书封面 |  |
描述 | This volume presents essays by pioneering thinkers including Tyler Burge, Gregory Chaitin, Daniel Dennett, Barry Mazur, Nicholas Humphrey, John Searle and Ian Stewart. Together they illuminate the Map/Territory Distinction that underlies at the foundation of the scientific method, thought and the very reality itself. .It is imperative to distinguish Map from the Territory while analyzing any subject but we often mistake map for the territory. Meaning for the Reference. Computational tool for what it computes. Representations are handy and tempting that we often end up committing the category error of over-marrying the representation with what is represented, so much so that the distinction between the former and the latter is lost. This error that has its roots in the pedagogy often generates a plethora of paradoxes/confusions which hinder the proper understanding of the subject. What are wave functions? Fields? Forces? Numbers? Sets? Classes? Operators? Functions? Alphabets and Sentences? Are they a part of our map (theory/representation)? Or do they actually belong to the territory (Reality)? Researcher, like a cartographer, clothes (or creates?) the reality by stitching multitud |
出版日期 | Book 2018 |
关键词 | Foundations of the scientific enterprise; Ontology vs Epistemology; Descriptions of reality; Philsophy |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72478-2 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-72478-2Series ISSN 1612-3018 Series E-ISSN 2197-6619 |
issn_series | 1612-3018 |
copyright | Springer International Publishing AG 2018 |