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Einstein, Tagore and the Nature of Reality

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Einstein, Tagore and the Nature of Reality

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Einstein, Tagore and the Nature of Reality book

Einstein, Tagore and the Nature of Reality

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Einstein, Tagore and the Nature of Reality book

Edited ByPartha Ghose
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 13 July 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315543352
Pages 256
eBook ISBN 9781315543352
Subjects Behavioral Sciences, Humanities, Mathematics & Statistics, Physical Sciences
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Ghose, P. (Ed.). (2016). Einstein, Tagore and the Nature of Reality (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315543352

ABSTRACT

The nature of reality has been a long-debated issue among scientists and philosophers. In 1930, Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein had a long conversation on the nature of reality. This conversation has been widely quoted and discussed by scientists, philosophers and scholars from the literary world. The important question that Tagore and Einstein discussed was whether the world is a unity dependent on humanity, or the world is a reality independent on the human factor. Einstein took the stand adopted by Western philosophers and mathematicians, namely that reality is something independent of the mind and the human factor. Tagore, on the other hand, adopted the opposite view. Nevertheless, both Einstein and Tagore claimed to be realists despite the fundamental differences between their conceptions of reality. Where does the difference lie? Can it be harmonized at some deeper level? Can Wittgenstein, for example, be a bridge between the two views? This collection of essays explores these two fundamentally different conceptions of the nature of reality from the perspectives of theories of space-time, quantum theory, general philosophy of science, cognitive science and mathematics.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

ByKATHLEEN M. O’CONNELL

chapter 1|28 pages

Einstein, the reality of space and the action–reaction principle

ByHARVEY R. BROWN, DENNIS LEHMKUHL

chapter 2|8 pages

The hole argument and the nature of space-time: A critical review from a constructivist perspective

ByTIAN YU CAO

chapter 3|25 pages

Quantum information and reality, especially the reality of the past and future

ByCHARLES H. BENNETT

chapter 4|16 pages

Einstein and Tagore, Newton and Blake, Everett and Bohr: the dual nature of reality

ByANTHONY SUDBERY

chapter 5|20 pages

Toward relational reality: from Einstein and Tagore to Gaudiya Vaishnava Vedanta

ByRAVI V. GOMATAM

chapter 6|21 pages

Science, poiesis and visions of reality

ByTUSHAR K. SARKAR

chapter 7|26 pages

Physical reality and the unobservables of physical nature

ByC. S. UNNIKRISHNAN

chapter 8|21 pages

High-energy physics and post-empiricism

ByK. SRIDHAR

chapter 9|19 pages

Cognitive constraints on the perception of reality

ByAVI CHAUDHURI

chapter 10|14 pages

Embodied cognition and the constructivist view of reality

ByPARTHA GHOSE

chapter 11|14 pages

Incompleteness theorems and realities: a tale of three great thinkers

ByMIHIR KR. CHAKRABORTY
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