Holes and Other Superficialities (Bradford Books) - Softcover

Casati, Roberto; Varzi, Achille C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 026253133X ISBN 13: 9780262531337

Verlag: MIT Press, 1995

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Book by Casati Roberto Varzi Achille C

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-- Douglas Hofstadter, author of "G??del, Escher, Bach" -- Valentino Braitenberg, Director, Max-Planck-Institut f??r Biologische Kybernetick " This is an exciting epistemological experiment. It is wonderful to see how intelligent philosophers can take a modest concept, such as that of the hole, as a starting point for an immense and brilliant exercise.... The writing is delightful." -- Valentino Braitenberg, Director, Max-Planck-Institut fA 1/4 r Biologische Kybernetick " The idea of "Holes and Other Superficialities" is wonderfully counterintuitive: The authors want us to think of absences as full-fledged cognitive entities. The book describes a grand variety of holes -- holes in doughnuts, tunnels through blocks, flowing gaps in regularly-spaced flowerbed, and hundreds more. There are an enormous number of beautifully-rendered illustrations of every imaginable (and often never-before-imagined) type of hole....The overlap with philosophical issues of every sort is marvelous, and the authors have a delightful sense of humor." -- Douglas Hofstadter, author of "GA del, Escher, Bach" & quot; This is an exciting epistemological experiment. It is wonderful to see how intelligent philosophers can take a modest concept, such as that of the hole, as a starting point for an immense and brilliant exercise.... The writing is delightful.& quot; -- Valentino Braitenberg, Director, Max-Planck-Institut f& Atilde; & frac14; r Biologische Kybernetick & quot; The idea of Holes and Other Superficialities is wonderfully counterintuitive: The authors want us to think of absences as full-fledged cognitive entities. The book describes a grand variety of holes -- holes in doughnuts, tunnels through blocks, flowing gaps in regularly-spaced flowerbed, and hundreds more. There are an enormous number of beautifully-rendered illustrations of every imaginable (and often never-before-imagined) type of hole....The overlap with philosophical issues of every sort is marvelous, and the authors have a delightful sense of humor.& quot; -- Douglas Hofstadter, author of G& Atilde; & para; del, Escher, Bach "The idea of "This is an exciting epistemological experiment. It is wonderful to see how intelligent philosophers can take a modest concept, such as that of the hole, as a starting point for an immense and brilliant exercise.... The writing is delightful."--Valentino Braitenberg, Director, Max-Planck-Institut fa1/4r Biologische Kybernetick "The idea of "Holes and Other Superficialities" is wonderfully counterintuitive: The authors want us to think of absences as full-fledged cognitive entities. The book describes a grand variety of holes--holes in doughnuts, tunnels through blocks, flowing gaps in regularly-spaced flowerbed, and hundreds more. There are an enormous number of beautifully-rendered illustrations of every imaginable (and often never-before-imagined) type of hole....The overlap with philosophical issues of every sort is marvelous, and the authors have a delightful sense of humor."--Douglas Hofstadter, author of "Gadel, Escher, Bach"

Reseña del editor:

This investigation on the borderlines of metaphysics, everyday geometry and the theory of perception seeks to answer two basic questions: Do holes really exist? If they do, what are they? Holes are among entities that down-to-earth philosophers would like to expel from their ontological inventory. Casati and Varzi argues in favour of holes' existence, examining their ontology of holes, their geometry, their part-whole relations, their identity, their causal role and the ways we perceive them.

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• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 026253133X
• ISBN 13: 9780262531337
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 266