Einstein Tagore And The Nature Of Reality
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Einstein, Tagore and the Nature of Reality
The nature of reality remains a deeply contested subject amongst scientists and philosophers. When Albert Einstein met Rabindranath Tagore in 1930, it was this topic that occupied their discussion. Ghose takes the event as the starting point for this collection, with contributions from a distinguished team of scholars. Current debates in philosophy and science are considered, with essays on quantum physics, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy of mathematics and the natural sciences. The Tagore-Einstein discussion provides the vantage point from which to address vital questions of scientific truth, its epistemology and methodology.
Einstein, Tagore and the Nature of Reality
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.
Tagore, Einstein and the Nature of Reality
This volume consists of a selection of scholarly essays from literature, philosophy and history on the conception of reality as understood by Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein. It presents some key reflections on reality, language, poetry, truth, science, personality, human sciences, virtue ethics, intelligibility and creativity.