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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2017

ISBN (Hardback): 9783319444178

Full citation:

Shyam Wuppuluri, Giancarlo Ghirardi (eds), Space, time and the limits of human understanding, Berlin, Springer, 2017

Space, time and the limits of human understanding

Contents

Space as a source and as an object of knowledge

the transformation of the concept of space in the post-Kantian philosophy of geometry

Francesca Biagioli

3-14

Spacetime and reality

facing the ultimate judge

Vesselin Petkov

137-148

Matter, space, time, and motion

a unified gravitational perspective

C. S. Unnikrishnan

167-183

Time measurement in living systems

human understanding and health implications

Lakshman Abhilash, Vijay Kumar Sharma

337-352

Time and suffering

false metaphors, (de-)synchronous times, and internal dynamics

Norman Sieroka

371-380

"Photographing the footsteps of time"

space and time in Charles Babbage's calculating engines

Doron Swade

417-427

The novel and the map

spatiotemporal form and discourse in literary cartography

Robert T. Tally

479-485

Losing time and space

experiencing immersion

Diana J. Reichenbach

503-512