In this era of digital multiplicity, images are reproduced atdazzling speed and spread instantly across the globe, yet they trigger vastly different responses. Images are not sim-ply depictions; they become visible to beholders in the con-text of embodied, habitual practices of looking, display,and figuration — a visual regime. In pluralistic settingscharacterized by cultural and religious di…
The volume you have before you is the first edited collection specifically devoted to philosophy of astrophysics. Our primary aims in producing this volume have been to gather contemporary research in philosophy of astrophysics together in one place as both a reference resource for scholars already working in this subdiscipline and as an introduc…
he nature of emotions was generally criticized in the Western tradition of philosophy. This criticism of the emotional part of human nature and experience is known to have its root in the mainstream Platonic tradition. In other words, it has championed rationality/reason against emotional-ity/emotion, especially from certain scholarly standpoints. The Western dualism of reaso…
What remains with us after somebody’s death? In a poem from 1966, the Swedish poet and future Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer reflected on the ‘long, shimmering comet tail’ that the shock leaves behind, and which ‘keeps us inside’. Death has a comet tail, a tenden-cy to remain with us, sometimes for a very long time. Tranströmer also uses references to different media—the televis…
Urbanisasi merupakan suatu fenomena perubahan karakteristik kawasan yang awalnya adalah perdesaan menjadi kawasan bercirikan perkotaan, yang ditandai dengan semakin bertambahnya penduduk yang tinggal di kota. Urbanisasi dapat disebabkan oleh tiga hal: pertambahan penduduk alami di kota, perpindahan penduduk dari desa ke kota, dan perubahan ciri dari desa menjadi kota. Dalam buku panduan ini, ya…
Once upon a time a prairie mouse busied herself all fall storing away a cache of beans. Every morning she was out early with her empty cast-off snake skin, which she filled with ground beans and dragged home with her teeth. The little mouse had a cousin who was fond of dancing and talk, but who did not like to work. She was not careful to get her cache of beans and the season was already …