- As the more alert of you are aware, there are three BIG questions in philosophy: Why anything? Why life? Why me?
Subsidiary questions have to do with entailments re space, time, infinity, and similar. (The old definition of time as "Nature's way of keeping every thing from happening at once" is specious but similar to eating Chinese.)
An entertaining new book you might like to look into is: The Images of Time: An Essay on Temporal Representation by Robin LePoidevin (Paperback - Nov 9, 2009) - there is a first rate review on pages 9-10 of the 01/08/10 TLS
Whatever:
- Space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Infinity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- L’Esprit de Geometrie et L’Esprit de Finesse
Yes, we are all
By gin or thought
Distraught.
The violence of reason rules
The subtle Schools;
A dependent clause can curl yer cowl.
I know such men
Of strange conclusions.
Martinis
Cold as the serpent and as wise
Have unfocused my eyes.
Their icy depths have moved my pen.
~apologies to J. V. Cunningham
Pirelli Calendar 2010: Lily Cole, Daisy Lowe and Marloes Horst photographed by Terry Richardson
The 2010 Ava Gardner Museum Calendar is $10.00 and is available for purchase in the Museum Gift Shop or through phone orders. ...
The Mission, The Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander - Pete Blaber; Hardcover
The Maverick and His Machine – Maney http://www.amazon.com/Maverick-His-Machine-Thomas-Watson/dp/0471679259/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259340618&sr=1-1
A Passion for Wisdom: A Very Brief History of Philosophy - Robert C. Solomon; Paperback
The Top 500 Poems - William Harmon; Hardcover
The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets - David Yezzi
Other Men's Flowers; an Anthology of Poetry by archibald Wavell
Collected Poems by Philip Larkin and Anthony Thwaite
Biography: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) - Hermione Lee
Hume: A Very Short Introduction
Memoir: A History by Ben Yagoda (Hardcover - Nov 12, 2009)
A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable by Brian Clegg (Paperback - Sep 12, 2003)
A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind by Roy Sorensen (Hardcover - Dec 4, 2003)
A Very Brief History of Eternity - Carlos Eire; Hardcover
The Counterfeiters – Kenner
De Rerum Natura (The Nature of Things): A Poetic Translation (Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature) by Lucretius and David R. Slavitt
Lucretian Receptions: History, the Sublime, Knowledge by Philip Hardie
Language and Human Nature by Mark Halpern
Design & Memory: Computer Programming in the 20th Century / Peter H. Huyck and Nellie W. Kremenak
IBM System/38 Technical Developments (1978 IBM General Systems Division) – ISBN – 0-933186-00-2
Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity (Belknap Press) by Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor
Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics by Jeremy Gray
Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About – Knuth
The Royal Oak in Prestbury, Cheltenham, has the air of a true pub haven.
The Images of Time: An Essay on Temporal Representation by Robin LePoidevin
