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The Map and the Territory, 1st ed. 2018 Exploring the Foundations of Science, Thought and Reality The Frontiers Collection Series

Langue : Anglais

Coordonnateurs : Wuppuluri Shyam, Doria Francisco Antonio

Couverture de l’ouvrage The Map and the Territory
This volume presents essays by pioneering thinkers including Tyler Burge, Gregory Chaitin, Daniel Dennett, Barry Mazur, Nicholas Humphrey, John Searle and Ian Stewart. Together they illuminate the Map/Territory Distinction that underlies at the foundation of the scientific method, thought and the very reality itself. 


It is imperative to distinguish Map from the Territory while analyzing any subject but we often mistake map for the territory. Meaning for the Reference. Computational tool for what it computes. Representations are handy and tempting that we often end up committing the category error of over-marrying the representation with what is represented, so much so that the distinction between the former and the latter is lost. This error that has its roots in the pedagogy often generates a plethora of paradoxes/confusions which hinder the proper understanding of the subject. What are wave functions? Fields? Forces? Numbers? Sets? Classes? Operators? Functions? Alphabets and Sentences? Are they a part of our map (theory/representation)? Or do they actually belong to the territory (Reality)? Researcher, like a cartographer, clothes (or creates?) the reality by stitching multitudes of maps that simultaneously co-exist. A simple apple, for example, can be analyzed from several viewpoints beginning with evolution and biology, all the way down its microscopic quantum mechanical components. Is there a reality (or a real apple) out there apart from these maps? How do these various maps interact/intermingle with each other to produce a coherent reality that we interact with? Or do they not?


Does our brain uses its own internal maps to facilitate ?physicist/mathematician? in us to construct the maps about the external territories in turn? If so, what is the nature of these internal maps? Are there meta-maps? Evolution definitely fences our perception and thereby our ability to construct maps, revealing to us only those aspects beneficial for our survival. But the question is, to what extent? Is there a way out of the metaphorical Platonic cave erected around us by the nature? While ?Map is not the territory? as Alfred Korzybski remarked, join us in this journey to know more, while we inquire on the nature and the reality of the maps which try to map the reality out there. 

The book also includes a foreword by Sir Roger Penrose and an afterword by Dagfinn Follesdal.
● Philosophy -- Philosophy of Abstraction. Ontological/Epistemological distinction. Thought
vs Reality. Generalization vs Contextuality.
● Theoretical Physics: Space, Time, Dimension, Force, Wave Functions, Operators, Fields,
Strings etc., Are they real? Transition/Correspondence between theories and reality. Various
tangled loops and circular definitions at the foundations of Science.
● Mathematics: Magnitude -- Number, Sets, Classes, Functions, Abstract mathematical
structures/objects, Platonism and various schools of thought.
● Information Theory/ Computing/Logic: Information is everything. Aspects of computability
and undecidability in our very map (Theories and Constructs) and how far they leak into the
territory (reality).
● Biology/Cognitive Science: Perception -- how our map of the territory and thereby the very
territory itself is fenced by the evolution. Brain/Mind and the extent they let us patch the
reality with percepts. Map and Territory, an illusion? From a cognitive viewpoint.

List of authors who have accepted: (* = tentative)


· Ian Stewart, University of Warwick, England. 

· William G Unruh, University of British Columbia, Canada. 

· Gregory Chaitin, IBM and his wife Virginia Chaitin. 

· Simon Saunders (*), Oxford University, Oxford. 

· Simon Kochen(*), Princeton University. 

· Marcelo Gleiser, Professor of physics at Dartmouth.  

· José Acacio de Barros, Associate professor at San Francisco State. 

· Tian Yu Cao, Boston University. 

· David Wolpert, Santa Fe Institute. 

· Vlatko Vedral, University of Oxford. 

· Edward Slowik, Winona State University, USA. <

· Steven Weinstein, University of Waterloo. 

· Eors Szathmary, Munich and Eötvös University. 

· Barry Dainton, University of Liverpool. 

· John Searle (*), University of California. 

Shyam Wuppuluri is an independent researcher working in the domain of foundations of science. His research interests range from philosophy to theoretical physics, mathematics and cognitive science. He is the recipient of Honra ao Mérito from the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy (Academia Brasileira de Filosofia) and has been a corresponding member of the academy since 2018. He is also the recipient of the prestigious Albert Einstein Fellowship 2020 from the Einstein Forum at Potsdam & Caputh and is a fellow of Royal Society of Arts. He is the instigating editor of several highly interdisciplinary volumes that disseminate and discuss issues underlying the foundations of sciences, and for which he has gathered the world's leading scientists and intellectuals as contributors; among them Noam Chomsky, Sir Roger Penrose, Sir Martin Rees, Daniel Dennett, A. C. Grayling, Nicholas Humphrey, Gregory Chaitin, Gerard 't Hooft, Ian Stewart, Barry Mazur, Stephen Wolfram, Paul Davies, Tyler Burge, Doron Swade, Julian Barbour, Newton Da Costa, Francisco Antonio Doria, Reuben Hersh, Nicholas Maxwell and many others.

  
Francisco Antonio Doria is a Brazilian physicist. Doria is a Professor Emeritus at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he currently teaches on the foundations of economic theory at the graduate School of Engineering (UFRJ COPPE). Doria has a B. Sc. in chemical engineering and a PhD in mathematical physics (under the guidance of Leopoldo Nachbin). He has made contributions to the gauge field copy problem in quantum field theory and proved with Newton da Costa several incompleteness theorems in mathematics, physics and mathematical economics, including the undecidability of chaos theory. Doria is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy, was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University, 1989-1990, and a visiting researcher at the mathematics department, University of Rochester, 1979-1981. He thinks of hi

With a foreword by Sir Roger Penrose and an afterword by Dagfinn Follesdal

Asks deep questions and provides many stimulating answers

Provides complimentary viewpoints of an eminent cast of authors from different disciplines

Appeals to all academics and laypersons with an interest in philosophical foundations

Includes commentary on classic works in the field

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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