Art Metropole

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Collapse Volume V: The Copernican Imperative

Date

2009

Publisher

Sequence Press

Format

Artists' Books

Details

Softcover

Size

11.5 × 17.5 × 4 cm

Length

587 

Description

Ever since Nicolaus Copernicus unmoored the Earth from its anchorage at the centre of the Universe and set it hurtling around the Sun, science has progressively uncovered the lineaments of an objective reality to which human experience stands as only the most superficial and attenuated of abstractions.

Collapse V brings together some of the most intellectually-challenging contemporary work devoted to exploring the philosophical implications of this ever-widening gulf between the real and the intuitable from a variety of overlapping and complementary standpoints.

With articles by groundbreaking philosophers and scientists, in-depth interviews with prominent thinkers, and new work from contemporary artists, Collapse V addresses the issues of the ‘deanthropomorphisation’ of reality initiated by the Copernican Revolution, and the enduring chasm between the spontaneous image of reality bequeathed to us by evolution and that revealed by the sciences in the wake of Copernicus.

Contents

DAMIAN VEAL – Editorial Introduction

CARLO ROVELL Anaximander’s Legacy

JULIAN BARBOUR – The View from Nowhen (Interview)

CONRAD SHAWCROSS AND ROBIN MACKAY – Shadows of Copernicanism

JAMES LADYMAN – Who’s Afraid of Scientism? (Interview)

THOMAS METZINGER – Enlightenment 2.0 (Interview)

NIGEL COOKE – Thinker Dejecta

JACK COHEN AND IAN STEWART – Alien Science (Interview)

MILAN CIRKOVIC – Sailing the Archipelago

NICK BOSTROM – Where are They?

KEITH TYSON – Random Sampler from a Blocktime Animation

MARTIN SCHÖNFELD – The Phoenix of Nature

IMMANUEL KANT – On Creation in the Total Extent of its Infinity in Space and Time

IAIN HAMILTON GRANT – Prospects for Post-Copernican Dogmatism

GABRIEL CATREN – A Throw of the Quantum Dice

ALBERTO GUALANDI – Errancies of the Human

PAUL HUMPHREYS – Thinking Outside the Brain

ISBN 978-0-9553087-4-1
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