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Myth, chaos, and certainty : notes on cosmos, life, and knowledge.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buccheri, R.
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Jenny Stanford Publishing, 2020.
Subjects:
Science > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I: Law, Chance, and Evolution
  • 1. The Evolution of the Universe
  • 1.1 From Lemaître's Prediction to Hubble's Observations
  • 1.2 From the Big Bang to Particles
  • 1.3 From Thermonuclear Fusion to Neutron Stars
  • 1.4 Pulsars, Black Holes, and the Future of the Universe
  • 2. The Origin of Life and Its Evolution on Earth
  • 2.1 The Anthropic Principle
  • 2.2 Nature's Constants and the Conditions for the Existence of Life
  • 2.3 The Physical-Climatic Conditions on Earth
  • 2.4 The Epochs of Life's Evolution on Earth
  • 2.5 Looking for ""Sufficient"" Conditions
  • 2.6 What If Matter Were Engraved with Life?
  • 3. The Evolution of the Cognitive Experience
  • 3.1 Myth and Archetype
  • 3.2 The ""Nuclear Conscience
  • 3.3 From Mythos to Logos: The ""Extended Conscience
  • 3.4 Two Cerebral Hemispheres, Two Logics
  • 3.5 A Mixing of Unpredictable Results in the ""Project"" of the Living
  • 3.6 The Mental Models of Reality: Filters, Ambiguities, Contradictions
  • Part II: Within Society between Mythos and Logos
  • 4. Human Societies and the Social Models of Reality
  • 4.1 The Pathway of Human Societies
  • 4.2 Democracy and Migrations
  • 4.3 Stereotypes, Prejudices, and the ""Common Sense
  • 4.4 Specialization and Fragmentation, Self-Referencing, and Radicalism
  • 5. The Conflict between Faith and Science
  • 5.1 God's Idea and the Gaps of Knowledge
  • 5.2 Monotheisms Face-to-Face
  • 5.3 The Opinion of a Theologian
  • 5.4 From a Necessary Dialogue to a Possible Super-Religion
  • 6. The Search for Equilibrium
  • 6.1 Antinomies' Tension and Control
  • 6.2 Tolerance as the First Objective
  • Part III: Integrative and Final Considerations
  • 7. Between Dream and Reality
  • 7.1 The Unity of Culture
  • 7.2 The Myth of Unity and the Theory of Everything
  • 7.3 Constraints Posed by the Flow of Time
  • 7.4 Utopias: Consoling Fantasies?
  • 8. About the More General Meaning of ""Myth
  • 8.1 The Positive Role of Myth along the Development of Sciences
  • 8.2 Rationality and Myth in Music, Architecture, and Literature
  • 8.3 Myth-Reason in Hermann Hesse and Luigi Pirandello
  • 9. Where Is Evolution Bringing Us To?
  • 9.1 The Open Society and the Mindful Pluralism
  • 9.2 The Future Human Society: A Superorganism or a Babel Tower?
  • 9.3 A Possible Future for Human Beings
  • Afterword
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index