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Zeitschriftenartikel zum Thema "Metaphysical Science Fiction"
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Krstic, Predrag. „Knowledge and foretelling: On imagining future“. Theoria, Beograd 55, Nr. 2 (2012): 85–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/theo1202085k.
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This paper presents and validates opposing notions regarding possibility of knowing the future. The medium for this enquiry is science fiction production in the literature, television and film. It finds that potential for knowing (in this production) demonstrate, illustrate, provokes, but also encounters the same epistemological, ethical and metaphysical quandaries that modern and contemporary philosophy deals with.
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Bijelic, Marijana, und Lucija Mandaric. „SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN SVETOSLAV MINKOV'S SHORT STORIES“. Ezikov Svyat volume 21 issue 2, ezs.swu.v21i2 (26.05.2023): 144–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.37708/ezs.swu.bg.v21i2.18.
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This paper analyses the role of the motifs associated with the development of science and new technologies in Svetoslav Minkov’s short stories. The author developed a rather unusual hybrid genre which consists of fantastical, science-fictional, satirical and absurdist elements. In the first phase all the elements (even those typical of science fiction) are merely in the function of representing an estranged, mystical, diabolical world; whereas in the second one, evil is no longer mystified in the form of a strange diabolical presence – now it becomes clear that the main source of the absurd is a form of capital production as well as the new model of modern pseudo-rationality that reduces the human life to a role in profit making and consumer spending, resulting in its total subservience to the market. After the loss of religious faith, or metaphysical ground, i. e. the ultimate loss of the Father, symbolical and social order have become circumferential systems of production and consumption, so the new man is no longer a child of God, but rather a strange being whose lack of being is represented by metaphors of either an animal or a robot.
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Hughes, Joe. „The greatest deception: fiction, falsity and manifestation in Spinoza’s Metaphysical Thoughts“. Intellectual History Review 30, Nr. 3 (21.04.2020): 363–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2020.1732698.
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Smolnikov, Andrei. „“Are we not Men?”: Reading the Human-Animal Interface in Science Fiction through John Berger’s “Why Look at Animals?”“. New Horizons in English Studies 4 (04.09.2020): 157–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/nh.2020.5.157-171.
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The so-called animal turn in literature has fostered the evolution of animal studies, a discipline aimed at interrogating the ontological, ethical, and metaphysical implications of animal depictions. Animal studies deals with representation and agency in literature, and its insights have fundamental implications for understanding the conception and progression of human-animal interactions. Considering questions raised by animal studies in the context of literary depictions of animals in science fiction, this article threads John Berger’s characterization of the present as a time of radical marginalization of animals in his essay “Why Look at Animals?” through two highly influential science fiction texts: H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Applying Berger’s reasoning to these two novels raises issues of personhood, criteria for ontological demarcation, and the dynamics of power, providing an opportunity to clarify, modify, and refute a number of his finer claims. This process of refinement allows us to track conceptions of human-animal interactions through the literary landscape and explore their extrapolations into various speculative contexts, including the frontiers of science and post-apocalyptic worlds.
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MAES-JELINEK, HENA. „Europe and post-colonial creativity: a metaphysical cross-culturalism“. European Review 13, Nr. 1 (20.01.2005): 91–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798705000098.
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In Shakespeare's The Tempest, the meeting between Prospero and Caliban is an allegory of a Renaissance colonial encounter. Although Prospero emphasizes his gift of language to Caliban, he deems him incapable of ‘nurture’ (cultural progress). After the Second World War, the Barbadian novelist Georges Lamming saw in that gift the possibility of a ‘new departure’, which in the following decades was to modify not only Caliban's prospects but most emphatically the European, and specifically, the British cultural scene. I intend to illustrate this transformation through the contribution of postcolonial writers to the metamorphosis of the ‘Great Tradition’ of the English novel. The changes are formal, linguistic but also evince a metaphysical cross-culturalism best exemplified, among others, in the fiction of the Guyanese-born, British novelist Wilson Harris.
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Ravetti, Graciela. „Reorganização de saberes tradicionais em Los sorias, de Alberto Laiseca“. Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos 19, Nr. 1 (21.09.2014): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2238-3824.19.1.143-166.
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<p><strong>Resumo: </strong>Neste estudo, propõe-se uma consideração sobre a reformulação de saberes tradicionais em termos não metafísicos na obra do escritor argentino Alberto Laiseca, <em>Los sorias </em>(1998), construída a partir da convergência dos temas das religiões, da magia e da astrologia, lado a lado com outros saberes em face de (des)hierarquização.</p> <p><strong>Palavras chave: </strong>Literatura hispano-americana; literatura argentina; romance contemporâneo; ficção científica.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>Abstract: </strong>In this study, we propose a consideration on the reformulation of traditional knowledge in no metaphysical terms in the work of Argentine writer Alberto Laiseca, <em>Los sorias </em>(1998), constructed from the convergence of the themes of religion, magic and astrology alongside with other knowledge in the face of de-hierarchization.</p> <p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Argentine literature; contemporary romance, science fiction, Spanish American literature.</p>
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Soumya Samanta. „East-West Dichotomy in Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle“. Creative Launcher 6, Nr. 4 (30.10.2021): 198–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.6.4.30.
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Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle is a historical novel that is set during the Ottoman reign. The novel presents the metaphysical opposition of East and West, self and the other, intuition and reason, mysticism, science and global and local, and the recurring issues of conflict of civilization, identity crisis, and cultural variations. Orhan Pamuk as a postmodern writer tries to bridge the gap between the East and the West through his writings. Although Turkey is at the backdrop in most of his novels, the treatment of themes is universal. The paper proposes the theory of Orientalism by Edward Said, which represents the encounter and treatment of the "Orient." The concept of identity expressed by Pamuk in his wide range of novels also can be related to the “Orient” and “Occident.” The culture of the East has always been portrayed as the binary opposite of Europe in history and fiction. The loss of identity of the East reflected in the works of Pamuk is an outcome of the clash between East and Europe, further leading to chaotic contexts and dilemmatic protagonists. Individuals unable to choose between the traditional self and the fashionable West mourn the lost identity of a country and their self.
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Mahmutćehajić, Rusmir. „ANDRIĆISM“. East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures 27, Nr. 4 (30.07.2013): 619–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325413494773.
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Andrić’s fiction is closely identified with Bosnia and often taken for a faithful reflection of that country’s culture, social relations, and tragic history. Rather than reflecting Bosnian pluralism, however, his oeuvre undermines its very metaphysical underpinnings, in part because his works are so firmly rooted in the European experience of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the perspective of a dominant modernity, certain cultures and peoples came to be presented as un-European, Oriental, and essentially foreign. Bosnia, which had always been a religiously plural society, now became one where ideological models excluded its Muslim inhabitants. In line with long-standing European practice, Andrić drew an image of the Bosnian Muslim as Turk and the Turk as Bosnian Muslim, converting the real content of Bosnian society into a plastic material for the ideologues of homogenous societies to use in modelling external and internal enemies that were essentially identical. This process required as its precondition the destruction of that enemy through a process described as the social and cultural liberation of the Christian subject. Over time, this exclusion took on forms now termed genocide. In creating this image, Andrić deployed narrative techniques whose function may fairly be characterized as the aesthetic dissimulation of our ethical responsibilities towards the other and the different. Such elements from his oeuvre have been used in the nationalist ideologies anti-Muslimism serves as a building block. In this paper, certain aspects of the ideological reading and interpretation of Andrić’s oeuvre are presented.
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Johnson, Jeffery. „Evidence, Explanation, and the Pursuit of Truth in Literature and Law“. Law, Culture and the Humanities 15, Nr. 3 (19.08.2015): 705–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1743872115599712.
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My focus is evidence. I understand this concept to be the marshalling of facts (data, etc.) in support of some position. This might be a district attorney presenting evidence to a jury that O. J. is guilty, or a literary critic arguing that Hamlet suffered from an Oedipus complex. But what is the logical connection between the relevant facts and the position they are being used to defend? How are we to distinguish successful cases of the marshalling of evidence – good arguments – from unsuccessful cases – weak arguments? I defend what I take to be a very commonsensical and pedagogically useful theory of [good] evidence. I argue that this view, inference to the best explanation, captures most, if not all, appeals to evidence in everyday contexts, as well as quite specialized domains like science, detective reasoning, and criminal and civil evidence. It also nicely encapsulates the sort of evidence that jurists and critics marshal in defense of particular readings of legal and literary texts. Appeals to evidence in the complicated worlds of teenage romance, detective fiction, criminal law, literary interpretation, and constitutional law all nicely fit the structure and evaluative methodology of inference to the best explanation. But only the diagnoses of lipstick stains, murder victims and bloody gloves can be held to the standards of correspondence and metaphysical realism. Literary and constitutional texts can be explained, and can be better or worse explained, but the truth or falsity of these interpretations is firmly in the realm of the coherence theory.
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Liu, Lydia H. „Life as Form: How Biomimesis Encountered Buddhism in Lu Xun“. Journal of Asian Studies 68, Nr. 1 (27.01.2009): 21–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911809000047.
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The fraught encounters between biological sciences and religions such as Buddhism have raised philosophical issues for many. This essay will focus on one of them: Can form ground the truth of life? The author suggests that, along with the introduction of evolutionary biology from Europe, literary realism in China has emerged as a technology of biomimesis, among other such technologies, to grapple with the problem of “life as form.” Focusing on Lu Xun's early interest in Ernst Haeckel and science fiction, especially his translation of “Technique for Creating Humans” and his narrative fiction “Prayers for Blessing,” which drew extensively on a Buddhist avadāna, the essay seeks to throw some new light on the familiar as well as unfamiliar sources relating to Lu Xun's life and works and to develop a new understanding of how the debates on science and metaphysics have developed in modern China.
Dissertationen zum Thema "Metaphysical Science Fiction"
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Wynn, Freda A. „Alternative realities/The multiverse a metaphysical conundrum /“. unrestricted, 2005. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11142005-155256/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2005.Title from title screen. Kay Beck, committee chair; Edward J. Friedman, Kathryn H. Fuller, committee members. Electronic text (124 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 17, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-124).
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Wynn, Freda A. „Alternative Realities/The Multiverse: A Metaphysical Conundrum“. Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_theses/4.
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Films of every era reflect the concerns and fears of Western society. The acceleration of technology, the loss of a concrete world, the uneasy relationship with humans and ever increasing complex machines are inducing a fear of losing the ability to discern reality. The reality of ideas from science and the world around are woven into the narratives that we use to explain life.The films we watch reflect our hopes and fears and as the fears increase so do films with a shared theme of alternative realities. To know reality and search for the true Self is the job of the hero and the protagonist in recent alternative reality films.
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Brilmyer, Sarah Pearl. „The intimate pulse of reality : sciences of description in fiction and philosophy, 1870-1920“. Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/31359.
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This dissertation tracks a series of literary interventions into scientific debates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, showing how the realist novel generated new techniques of description in response to pressing philosophical problems about agency, materiality, and embodiment. In close conversation with developments in the sciences, writers such as George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Olive Schreiner portrayed human agency as contiguous with rather than opposed to the pulsations of the physical world. The human, for these authors, was not a privileged or even an autonomous entity but a node in a web of interactive and co-constitutive materialities. Focused on works of English fiction published between 1870-1920, I argue that the historical convergence of a British materialist science and a vitalistic Continental natural philosophy led to the rise of a dynamic realism attentive to material forces productive of “character.” Through the literary figure of character and the novelistic practice of description, I show, turn-of-the-century realists explored what it meant to be an embodied subject, how qualities in organisms emerge and develop, and the relationship between nature and culture more broadly.
Bücher zum Thema "Metaphysical Science Fiction"
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Stephensen-Payne, Phil. Philip Kindred Dick, metaphysical conjurer: A working bibliography. 4. Aufl. [Leeds, West Yorkshire, England]: P. Stephensen-Payne, 1992.
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Gordon, Benson, Hrsg. Philip Kindred (i.e. Kendred) Dick, metaphysical conjurer: A working bibliography. 4. Aufl. Leeds: (P.Stephensen-Payne), 1992.
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Wilson, Colin. The mind parasites: The supernatural, metaphysical cult thriller. Rhinebeck, NY: Monkfish Book Pub. Co., 2005.
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Pratchett, Terry. The science of Discworld II. London: Ebury, 2002.
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Sajdak, Rudy. Metaphysics : Science Fiction Encyclopedia: Metaphysical Fiction. Independently Published, 2021.
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Delgrosso, Buddy. History of Generation Ships : Science-Fiction Novel: Metaphysical Science Fiction. Independently Published, 2021.
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Sackville, R. M. Hypno-Planticus: An Alien Invasion Metaphysical Science Fiction. Roxy Publications, 2022.
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Ferres, Michael. Science Fiction: A Novel. Vivid Publishing, 2013.
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Holly-Rosing, Madeleine. Boston Metaphysical Society. Source Point Press, 2021.
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Gomel, Elana, Danielle Davis, Eddie D. Moore, Russell Hemmell und Nicky Martin. Alien Dimensions: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Metaphysical Short Stories #12. Independently Published, 2017.
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Chalmers, David J. „The Matrixas Metaphysics“. In Science Fiction and Philosophy, 35–54. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118922590.ch5.
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Earlie, Paul. „Speculations“. In Derrida and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis, 81–112. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198869276.003.0004.
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This chapter addresses the vexed relationship between deconstruction and science. ‘Speculation’ is a term common both to Derrida’s early reading of Hegelian speculative philosophy and to his extensive reflection on psychoanalysis in texts such as La Carte postale (The Post Card). In its account of Freud’s singular synthesis of concrete observation and fictive speculation in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, La Carte postale provides an unexpectedly rich interrogation of the logic of scientific discovery, one at odds with recent caricatures of Derrida’s thought by proponents of a ‘speculative’ materialism. Freud’s speculations on the pleasure principle allow Derrida to explore psychoanalysis’s status as a ‘positive’ science, its relationship to technology (or technoscience), as well as the limits of psychoanalysis’s own self-delimitation vis-à-vis its various others: metaphysics, religion, and literature or fiction. Positive science’s structural dependency on ‘speculative fictions’ has implications for our understanding of both science and fiction, but it also has implications for recent calls by neuropsychoanalysts to do away with the speculative dimensions of psychoanalytic inquiry.
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Vas-Deyres, Natacha. „Jean-Claude Dunyach, Poet of the Flesh“. In Lingua Cosmica, 39–51. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252041754.003.0003.
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Jean-Claude Dunyach, born in 1957, has published more than a hundred short stories in a career of over thirty years. He belongs to a generation of contemporary French science-fiction writers that includes figures such as Roland C. Wagner, Emmanuel Jouanne, and Jean-Marc Ligny. At a time when French science fiction was struggling to explore new ways of storytelling influenced by surrealism or the Nouveau Roman, this generation has given science fiction new life by mixing a hard-science approach with the supernatural, fantasy and the fantastic, while paying glowing tributes to authors of the Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon sf: Duntach’s influences include Samuel Delany, Ray Bradbury, and more particularly, J. G. Ballard. The specificity of Dunyach consists of making metaphysical concepts tangible for the reader by giving them a symbolic substance: time itself becomes tangible as a sea of sand, stone, ashes, sea water; love stories can be petrified as semiprecious stones and worn as trophies—even the universe itself complies as a sheet of paper or a piece of cloth that can be creased. The characters in his short stories are hurt or twisted, often with cracks in their past, but they still act as links between the individual and the collective: for Dunyach, any kind of system—in particular a political one—can be defined by the way it deals with marginality. Dunyach favors an individual point of view for a better detection of the system’s weaknesses (cities, societies, religions, or relationships with time and death). In that respect, the most accomplished characters in his work are the “AnimalCities”: these living, extraterrestrial, city-shaped animals made of flesh and cartilage travel through space from node to node on the web of the universe. Their symbiotic liaison with humanity gradually leads humans to understand the global nature of reality.
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Rosen, Gideon. „Metaphysics as a Fiction“. In Fictionalism in Philosophy, 28–47. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190689605.003.0002.
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Realists about metaphysics hold that the aim of the enterprise is to state the truth about the fundamental structure of reality and the principles by means of which reality as a whole is built up from that fundamental structure. Fictionalists hold, by contrast, that metaphysics aims to produce theories (or models) of the fundamental structure that satisfy certain self-imposed constraints: consistency with evolving science, coherence, plausibility by the standards of one or another philosophical subculture, and so on. This chapter distinguishes scientific metaphysics (the sort of metaphysics that rounds out the scientific image by settling theoretical questions unaddressed by scientists) from speculative metaphysics (the sort of metaphysics that tackles questions remote from science) and recommends a version of fictionalism about the latter.
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Tahko, Tuomas E. „Meta-metaphysics“. In Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780415249126-n127-1.
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Meta-metaphysics concerns the nature and methodology of metaphysics and metaphysical inquiry. The emergence of meta-metaphysics as a systematic area of study is relatively recent, going back to the late 1990s. But the issues pursued in meta-metaphysics are certainly not novel: an age-old question about the nature of metaphysics is whether it is possible to obtain knowledge about metaphysical matters in the first place, and if it is, how this knowledge is obtained. The contemporary trend in meta-metaphysics was largely inspired by a well-known debate between Rudolf Carnap and W.V.O. Quine. This debate focused on the notion of existence and the seemingly problematic commitment to the existence of things that, on the face of it, do not exist, such as fictional entities or abstract entities such as numbers. But important as this issue is, contemporary meta-metaphysics has a much broader focus: it attempts to situate the field of metaphysics both within philosophy and within human inquiry more broadly speaking. Hence, meta-metaphysics has close ties to epistemology and philosophy of science, given that a central question in this area is how, or whether, metaphysical inquiry differs from scientific inquiry. One issue that may cause confusion is that the terms ‘meta-metaphysics’ and ‘metaontology’ are often used synonymously. But there are good reasons to distinguish them. Metaontology has a somewhat stricter focus and continues the tradition of the Quine–Carnap debate; it concerns issues such as the problems related to quantifying over abstract or non-existent entities. Meta-metaphysics also involves other themes than those already mentioned (see Tahko 2015). These include the definition of metaphysical and ontological realism, the discussion surrounding metaphysical grounding and fundamentality (see Bliss and Trogdon 2016), and the epistemology of metaphysics more broadly conceived.
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Silk, Joseph. „From Time to Time Machines“. In The Infinite Cosmos, 194–205. Oxford University PressOxford, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198505105.003.0016.
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Abstract Scientists are not very concerned about the philosophical or metaphysical implications of an infinite universe, but are willing to debate the limitless opportunities for the development of alternative forms of life and society. I will borrow freely in the following example of what may seemingly be more science fiction than science, but with ideas that are firmly rooted in physics and biology. First we should address the key issue that faces would-be time travellers. Time travel leads to the matricide paradox. Suppose one were to meet one’s mother as a young girl, and kill her. The logical inconsistency seems a devastating argument that would prevent such a journey from ever occurring. The matricide problem has a possible solution. Consider a billiard ball on a trajectory that allows it to fall down a wormhole. It re-emerges in its past, to collide with its earlier self, knocking itself on to a different trajectory. But this cannot happen. Nature, or rather physics, abhors and, some say, forbids causality violation. The wormhole’s gravity defocuses the billiard ball’s path. When it emerges, the ball has a high likelihood of missing itself.
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Silk, Joseph. „Introduction“. In The Infinite Cosmos, 1–2. Oxford University PressOxford, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198505105.003.0001.
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Abstract The infinite has to be a relative concept. Go any distance: an infinite space means that there is more to explore. The end is never reached. Could the universe be like that? The notion that the universe could be infinite has excited extreme views. To some, the concept of an infinite universe is horrifying. The chances of creating intelligent life may be infinitesimal, but they are finite. It happened at least once! In an infinite universe replicas of us are inevitable. There would be identical copies of ourselves replicating every action, every word, somewhere. This seems hard to accept. But this is hardly a good scientific reason for abandoning an infinite universe. Indeed, modern astronomy tells us that the infinite universe may be more than just a metaphysical concept. Physics may even require the universe to be infinite. And if it were actually infinite, would we ever know? I shall argue that there are means of exploring both a very large but finite and conceivably even an infinite universe. If the universe is topologically small – that is, very large but finite in volume – there may be clues to be unlocked in such observables as the fossil radiation left over from the Big Bang. In contrast, exploration and verification of an infinite universe is not far from the voyages of science fiction, but arguably lies in the realm of physics.
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Robinson, Benedict S. „The Accidents of the Soul“. In Passion's Fictions from Shakespeare to Richardson, 55–82. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198869177.003.0003.
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“The Accidents of the Soul” asks which disciplines were seen to provide a knowledge of the passions in the early modern period, and how that map of the disciplines changed over time. It opens by noting the relatively minor position the passions held in a received philosophical “science of the soul,” itself divided between physics and metaphysics. As “accidents of the soul”—that is, contingent qualitative alterations in the soul—the passions lay at the margins of philosophical knowledge: they were seen as subject to too much particularity and contingency to belong to what one author called “certaine science.” They belonged instead to the “low” sciences, the practical sciences, fields that study human actions and that therefore were seen to produce a merely probable knowledge of particulars: fields like rhetoric, politics, poetics, ethics. The passions also belonged to medicine insofar as diagnostic medicine was understood as an art: in medicine, “accidents” are symptoms and the phrase “accidents of the soul” belongs to medical discourse insofar as it takes account of the particularities of the passions as part of a regimen of health. The chapter situates the seventeenth-century treatises on the passions in relation to various kinds of discourse on the passions all seen as promoting forms of probable knowledge on the model of medical diagnostics: physiology and “characterology,” most notably. It ends with a reading of Shakespeare’s Othello as a text that probes the limits—and the dangers—of this probable knowledge of the passions.
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Meeker, Natania, und Antónia Szabari. „Libertine Botany and Vegetal Modernity“. In Radical Botany, 28–55. Fordham University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823286638.003.0002.
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The first western plant fiction appears with the waning of the Renaissance (and may be considered one of the earliest forms of science fiction more generally). While the Aristotelian endorsement of vegetal ensoulment gradually falls out of favor as a natural philosophical approach to plants, this chapter shows that the autonomous liveliness of the plant inherent in the Aristotelian notion of vegetative psūkē is reawakened from its scholastic slumber by two authors: Guy de La Brosse (1586–1641) and Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655), both belonging to a circle of libertins érudits. The authors investigate how the botanically oriented texts of La Brosse and Cyrano generate an eclectic combination of proto-scientific ideas, borrowed from traditions spanning atomism to alchemy, to significantly increase the animatedness of the plant. “Freed” from the confines of metaphysics by scientific thought, the plant penetrates into the domain of literature. The plant is thus not only present but takes pride of place at one of the points of origin of science fiction.
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Heim, Michael. „AWS and UFOs“. In Virtual Realism. Oxford University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195104264.003.0012.
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Something....-What? —A phenomenon. Something intrusive, something vague but insistent, pushing itself upon us. — Something outside? From afar? Something alien? — Something descending in the night, standing in the shadows at the foot of the bed. —An illusion? Hallucination maybe? A quirky twist of imagination? — No, definitely a presence, something that might be a someone, a someone with wires and electric sensors, probing, penetrating, exploring private parts. Something lifting us off the familiar face of the planet we thought we knew so well, beaming us outside the orbit of our comfortable homes. Definitely something indefinite . . . or someone. —We hear about them only from others who speak about sightings of unidentified objects in the sky, because we do not allow ourselves to be counted among the unstable few who acknowledge the possibility of something outside the circle of our sciences. Those unstable few accept belief in something standing in the shadows at the door. We listen closely to those speaking about incidents of the phenomenon. We do not look. — Something IS out there. We’ve seen and heard it in the night. It’s contacting us. The phenomenon certainly exists in late-night chat like the above. It exists as metaphysical hearsay, as an internal dialogue between what we believe and what we think we are willing to believe. Popular descriptions of “the incident” waver between child-like awe and tongue-in-cheek tabloid humor. Here is where our knowledge, as a culturally defined certainty, becomes most vulnerable. Here we discover the soft edges of knowledge as an established and culturally underwritten form of belief. What a thrill to feel the tug of war on the thin thread of shared belief! A blend of religious archetypes and science-fiction imagery supplies the words for those who tell about the incident. The stories often float up through hypnosis or “recovered memory” hypnotherapy, as in the famous case of Betty and Barney Hill who experienced abduction one September night in New Hampshire in 1961. Researchers have recently plotted consistently recurring patterns in thousands of stories, and the mythic dimension of the story line has not been lost on Hollywood.