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Jun 7, 2017 · Scientific cosmology is the study of the universe through astronomy and physics. However, cosmology also has a significant cultural impact. People construct anthropological cosmologies (notions about the way the world works), drawing in scientific theories in order to construct models for activities in disciplines, such as politics and psychology. In addition, the arts (literature, film and ...
- Nicholas Campion
- 2017
Sep 26, 2017 · Philosophy of Cosmology. First published Tue Sep 26, 2017. Cosmology (the study of the physical universe) is a science that, due to both theoretical and observational developments, has made enormous strides in the past 100 years. It began as a branch of theoretical physics through Einstein’s 1917 static model of the universe (Einstein 1917 ...
- Christopher Smeenk, George Ellis
- 2017
Jul 25, 2013 · Cosmology’s favorite topics are common themes in modern and post-modern fiction. Expanding, contracting, and bending time, parallel universes, the time-space continuum, the beginning and the end of time and the fragility of our isolated human existence are used as literary devices to explore human nature and address larger, even metaphysical ...
Jan 19, 2024 · Belief in ‘cosmic purpose’—‘cosmic purposivism’—is essentially the broadest possible expansion of the ethical project. According to cosmic purposivism, the good projects we’re pursuing here are part of an all-encompassing ethical scheme that incorporates the whole of reality.
The term cosmology can be traced to the 1730s, although its appearance in a scienti c sense. dates from only after the Second World War [8]. The logos, which is the root of ‘logy’, means ...
Scientific cosmology is the study of the universe through astronomy and physics. However, cosmology also has a significant cultural impact. People construct anthro pological cosmologies (notions about the way the world works), drawing in scientific theories in order to construct models for activities in disciplines, such as politics and psychology. In addition, the arts (literature, film and ...
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Jan 1, 2012 · Thinking about the cosmology of literature, we have tried to apply to recent fiction some of the captivating terminology of theoretical physics and some from information science. We have found that the concepts of parallel worlds and alternative realities are indeed helpful, that quantum mechanics has a rich lode of labels that spark the imagination in describing some aspects of human behavior.
