Substance and Function & Einstein's Theory of Relativity

by Ernst Cassirer

Paperback, 1980

Status

Available

Call number

530.11

Collection

Publication

Dover Publications (1980), Paperback, 465 pages

Description

In this double-volume work, a great modern philosopher propounds a system of thought in which Einstein's theory of relativity represents only the latest (albeit the most radical) fulfillment of the motives inherent to mathematics and the physical sciences. In the course of its exposition, it touches upon such topics as the concept of number, space and time, geometry, and energy; Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry; traditional logic and scientific method; mechanism and motion; Mayer's methodology of natural science; Richter's definite proportions; relational concepts and the activity of the ego; Einstein's relativity and "reality"; and the philosophical concept of truth and its role in relativity theory. 1923 edition.

Language

Original language

French

Physical description

465 p.; 8 inches

ISBN

0486200507 / 9780486200507
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