Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts

Monday, April 26, 2021

The Motion Paradox by Joseph Mazur (2007, ISBN 978-0-525-94992-3)

Subtitle- The 2,500 year old puzzle behind all the mysteries of time and space.

The book is about Zeno's paradoxes of motion.

Zeno's paradoxes are discussed and then a variety of physics topics are discussed and related back to the paradoxes.

 I enjoyed this book.

Purchased at (unknown) on 2008-7-1 for (amount unknown, possibly 24.95$.)
 

Tuesday, December 31, 2019

The Philosophy Book, by Gregory Bassham (2016, ISBN 978-1-4549-1847-9) Subtitle-- From the Vedas to the New Atheists, 250 Milestones in the History of Philosophy.
I really liked this book. Contains 250 one page descriptions of various philosophy topics arraigned by date. Starts with Vedas and ends with "The Triple Theory of Ethics". In the back of the book are references to other books for each topic, so you can research further. Also, of course, you can research on the internet using things like Wikipedia. Below is page one of the table of contents. As you can see a wide range of topics is covered.
Purchased from Amazon, June 19, 2019 for 19.44$

Thursday, August 26, 2010


About Time by Paul Davies, 1995, ISBN 0-671-79964-9. The subject of this book is the temporal realm, the dimension of time. The author is a physicist. In technical literature he is listed as P. C. W. Davies. The subtitle is "Einstein's Unfinished Revolution" and much of the book is about general relativity and time dilation. The book starts with a brief history of how people have (and still do) think about time. Everyone experiences time. In some cultures they claim that all times exists together, others only see the Now. In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, the character Billy Pilgrim becomes aware of his disjointed time travels. Most of "About Time" is about time as it relates to modern physics. Good book. The book has 285 pages, a Preface, a Prologue, 14 chapters and an Epilogue. Plus Notes describing sources of quotes, etc., a Biblography and an Index.

Friday, July 25, 2008

50 Philosophy Ideas by Ben Dupre. ISBN 978-1847240064. This book presents 50 short discussions on various philosophical topics. Wikipedia has many good discussions like those in this book.