Lectures and Essays

Klappentext Essays by mathematician William Clifford, bridging the pure and social sciences in the wake of Darwinism, published posthumously in 1879. Zusammenfassung Remembered for a mind 'most difficult to describe in its powers, its strangeness, its uniqueness', William Clifford (1845–79) integrated mathematics, ethics and evolution in this two-volume work of 1879, a posthumous collection of public addresses and writings edited by Leslie Stephen and Frederick Pollock. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 1. Biographical; 2. Selections from letters, etc.; 3. Bibliographical; Lectures and Essays: 1. On some of the conditions of mental development; 2. On theories of the physical forces; 3. On the aims and instruments of scientific thought; 4. Atoms; 5. The first and last catastrophe; 6. The unseen universe; 7. The philosophy of the pure sciences.

Product details

• Authors: William Kingdon Clifford
• Assisted by: Frederick Pollock (Editor), Leslie Stephen (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.12.2011
• EAN: 9781108040945
• ISBN: 978-1-108-04094-5
• No. of pages: 354
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy; Lectures and Essays 2 Volume Paperback Set
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought