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Explorations in Mathematical Physics: The Concepts Behind an Elegant Language
Don Koks
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978-0-387-30943-9
ISBN electrónico
978-0-387-32793-8
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Springer Nature
País de edición
Reino Unido
Fecha de publicación
2006
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© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2006
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The Language of Physics
Don Koks
The aim of this paper is to reflect upon some fundamental issues in bioethics and how they may be related to the topic of limits. Of course, one might ask if there is any ethical item that cannot be related to the topic of limits. Ethics could even be defined as the art of setting and justifying limits in order to instil a sense of reasonable, acceptable regulations. Without limits everything and everyone would lack coherence and identity. On the other hand there seems to have been an important cultural change in attitude towards many forms of limitations which are no longer automatically accepted as the lines at which we have to stop, or at least must ask permission to go any further. They are seen more or less as borders that can be crossed in order to discover areas of completely new possibilities, broadening the range of human activities and conferring the power to transform the original structure of nature. As far as I can see the ethical evaluation of limits depends more on assumptions linked to general worldviews and less on the construction of an ethical argument in specific situations. It makes a difference whether the ethicist is fundamentally seen as the border guard between the areas of the permissible and the forbidden, or whether ethics first of all has the task of surveying a partly unknown territory where we are not sure of the precise demarcations. In the modern understanding of nature, normative standards must be justified and can no longer be deduced from the description of a natural framework implying pre-existing moral rules.
Pp. 1-5
A Trip Down Linear Lane
Don Koks
The aim of this paper is to reflect upon some fundamental issues in bioethics and how they may be related to the topic of limits. Of course, one might ask if there is any ethical item that cannot be related to the topic of limits. Ethics could even be defined as the art of setting and justifying limits in order to instil a sense of reasonable, acceptable regulations. Without limits everything and everyone would lack coherence and identity. On the other hand there seems to have been an important cultural change in attitude towards many forms of limitations which are no longer automatically accepted as the lines at which we have to stop, or at least must ask permission to go any further. They are seen more or less as borders that can be crossed in order to discover areas of completely new possibilities, broadening the range of human activities and conferring the power to transform the original structure of nature. As far as I can see the ethical evaluation of limits depends more on assumptions linked to general worldviews and less on the construction of an ethical argument in specific situations. It makes a difference whether the ethicist is fundamentally seen as the border guard between the areas of the permissible and the forbidden, or whether ethics first of all has the task of surveying a partly unknown territory where we are not sure of the precise demarcations. In the modern understanding of nature, normative standards must be justified and can no longer be deduced from the description of a natural framework implying pre-existing moral rules.
Pp. 7-76
The Natural Language of Random Processes
Don Koks
The aim of this paper is to reflect upon some fundamental issues in bioethics and how they may be related to the topic of limits. Of course, one might ask if there is any ethical item that cannot be related to the topic of limits. Ethics could even be defined as the art of setting and justifying limits in order to instil a sense of reasonable, acceptable regulations. Without limits everything and everyone would lack coherence and identity. On the other hand there seems to have been an important cultural change in attitude towards many forms of limitations which are no longer automatically accepted as the lines at which we have to stop, or at least must ask permission to go any further. They are seen more or less as borders that can be crossed in order to discover areas of completely new possibilities, broadening the range of human activities and conferring the power to transform the original structure of nature. As far as I can see the ethical evaluation of limits depends more on assumptions linked to general worldviews and less on the construction of an ethical argument in specific situations. It makes a difference whether the ethicist is fundamentally seen as the border guard between the areas of the permissible and the forbidden, or whether ethics first of all has the task of surveying a partly unknown territory where we are not sure of the precise demarcations. In the modern understanding of nature, normative standards must be justified and can no longer be deduced from the description of a natural framework implying pre-existing moral rules.
Pp. 77-146
A Roundabout Route to Geometric Algebra
Don Koks
The aim of this paper is to reflect upon some fundamental issues in bioethics and how they may be related to the topic of limits. Of course, one might ask if there is any ethical item that cannot be related to the topic of limits. Ethics could even be defined as the art of setting and justifying limits in order to instil a sense of reasonable, acceptable regulations. Without limits everything and everyone would lack coherence and identity. On the other hand there seems to have been an important cultural change in attitude towards many forms of limitations which are no longer automatically accepted as the lines at which we have to stop, or at least must ask permission to go any further. They are seen more or less as borders that can be crossed in order to discover areas of completely new possibilities, broadening the range of human activities and conferring the power to transform the original structure of nature. As far as I can see the ethical evaluation of limits depends more on assumptions linked to general worldviews and less on the construction of an ethical argument in specific situations. It makes a difference whether the ethicist is fundamentally seen as the border guard between the areas of the permissible and the forbidden, or whether ethics first of all has the task of surveying a partly unknown territory where we are not sure of the precise demarcations. In the modern understanding of nature, normative standards must be justified and can no longer be deduced from the description of a natural framework implying pre-existing moral rules.
Pp. 147-184
Special Relativity and the Lorentz Transform
Don Koks
The aim of this paper is to reflect upon some fundamental issues in bioethics and how they may be related to the topic of limits. Of course, one might ask if there is any ethical item that cannot be related to the topic of limits. Ethics could even be defined as the art of setting and justifying limits in order to instil a sense of reasonable, acceptable regulations. Without limits everything and everyone would lack coherence and identity. On the other hand there seems to have been an important cultural change in attitude towards many forms of limitations which are no longer automatically accepted as the lines at which we have to stop, or at least must ask permission to go any further. They are seen more or less as borders that can be crossed in order to discover areas of completely new possibilities, broadening the range of human activities and conferring the power to transform the original structure of nature. As far as I can see the ethical evaluation of limits depends more on assumptions linked to general worldviews and less on the construction of an ethical argument in specific situations. It makes a difference whether the ethicist is fundamentally seen as the border guard between the areas of the permissible and the forbidden, or whether ethics first of all has the task of surveying a partly unknown territory where we are not sure of the precise demarcations. In the modern understanding of nature, normative standards must be justified and can no longer be deduced from the description of a natural framework implying pre-existing moral rules.
Pp. 185-211
Four-Vectors and the Road to Tensors
Don Koks
The aim of this paper is to reflect upon some fundamental issues in bioethics and how they may be related to the topic of limits. Of course, one might ask if there is any ethical item that cannot be related to the topic of limits. Ethics could even be defined as the art of setting and justifying limits in order to instil a sense of reasonable, acceptable regulations. Without limits everything and everyone would lack coherence and identity. On the other hand there seems to have been an important cultural change in attitude towards many forms of limitations which are no longer automatically accepted as the lines at which we have to stop, or at least must ask permission to go any further. They are seen more or less as borders that can be crossed in order to discover areas of completely new possibilities, broadening the range of human activities and conferring the power to transform the original structure of nature. As far as I can see the ethical evaluation of limits depends more on assumptions linked to general worldviews and less on the construction of an ethical argument in specific situations. It makes a difference whether the ethicist is fundamentally seen as the border guard between the areas of the permissible and the forbidden, or whether ethics first of all has the task of surveying a partly unknown territory where we are not sure of the precise demarcations. In the modern understanding of nature, normative standards must be justified and can no longer be deduced from the description of a natural framework implying pre-existing moral rules.
Pp. 213-232
Accelerated Frames: Onward to the Principle of Covariance
Don Koks
The aim of this paper is to reflect upon some fundamental issues in bioethics and how they may be related to the topic of limits. Of course, one might ask if there is any ethical item that cannot be related to the topic of limits. Ethics could even be defined as the art of setting and justifying limits in order to instil a sense of reasonable, acceptable regulations. Without limits everything and everyone would lack coherence and identity. On the other hand there seems to have been an important cultural change in attitude towards many forms of limitations which are no longer automatically accepted as the lines at which we have to stop, or at least must ask permission to go any further. They are seen more or less as borders that can be crossed in order to discover areas of completely new possibilities, broadening the range of human activities and conferring the power to transform the original structure of nature. As far as I can see the ethical evaluation of limits depends more on assumptions linked to general worldviews and less on the construction of an ethical argument in specific situations. It makes a difference whether the ethicist is fundamentally seen as the border guard between the areas of the permissible and the forbidden, or whether ethics first of all has the task of surveying a partly unknown territory where we are not sure of the precise demarcations. In the modern understanding of nature, normative standards must be justified and can no longer be deduced from the description of a natural framework implying pre-existing moral rules.
Pp. 233-269
The Elegance and Power of Tensor Notation
Don Koks
The aim of this paper is to reflect upon some fundamental issues in bioethics and how they may be related to the topic of limits. Of course, one might ask if there is any ethical item that cannot be related to the topic of limits. Ethics could even be defined as the art of setting and justifying limits in order to instil a sense of reasonable, acceptable regulations. Without limits everything and everyone would lack coherence and identity. On the other hand there seems to have been an important cultural change in attitude towards many forms of limitations which are no longer automatically accepted as the lines at which we have to stop, or at least must ask permission to go any further. They are seen more or less as borders that can be crossed in order to discover areas of completely new possibilities, broadening the range of human activities and conferring the power to transform the original structure of nature. As far as I can see the ethical evaluation of limits depends more on assumptions linked to general worldviews and less on the construction of an ethical argument in specific situations. It makes a difference whether the ethicist is fundamentally seen as the border guard between the areas of the permissible and the forbidden, or whether ethics first of all has the task of surveying a partly unknown territory where we are not sure of the precise demarcations. In the modern understanding of nature, normative standards must be justified and can no longer be deduced from the description of a natural framework implying pre-existing moral rules.
Pp. 271-348
Curvature and Differential Geometry
Don Koks
The aim of this paper is to reflect upon some fundamental issues in bioethics and how they may be related to the topic of limits. Of course, one might ask if there is any ethical item that cannot be related to the topic of limits. Ethics could even be defined as the art of setting and justifying limits in order to instil a sense of reasonable, acceptable regulations. Without limits everything and everyone would lack coherence and identity. On the other hand there seems to have been an important cultural change in attitude towards many forms of limitations which are no longer automatically accepted as the lines at which we have to stop, or at least must ask permission to go any further. They are seen more or less as borders that can be crossed in order to discover areas of completely new possibilities, broadening the range of human activities and conferring the power to transform the original structure of nature. As far as I can see the ethical evaluation of limits depends more on assumptions linked to general worldviews and less on the construction of an ethical argument in specific situations. It makes a difference whether the ethicist is fundamentally seen as the border guard between the areas of the permissible and the forbidden, or whether ethics first of all has the task of surveying a partly unknown territory where we are not sure of the precise demarcations. In the modern understanding of nature, normative standards must be justified and can no longer be deduced from the description of a natural framework implying pre-existing moral rules.
Pp. 349-386
Variational Calculus and Field Theory
Don Koks
The aim of this paper is to reflect upon some fundamental issues in bioethics and how they may be related to the topic of limits. Of course, one might ask if there is any ethical item that cannot be related to the topic of limits. Ethics could even be defined as the art of setting and justifying limits in order to instil a sense of reasonable, acceptable regulations. Without limits everything and everyone would lack coherence and identity. On the other hand there seems to have been an important cultural change in attitude towards many forms of limitations which are no longer automatically accepted as the lines at which we have to stop, or at least must ask permission to go any further. They are seen more or less as borders that can be crossed in order to discover areas of completely new possibilities, broadening the range of human activities and conferring the power to transform the original structure of nature. As far as I can see the ethical evaluation of limits depends more on assumptions linked to general worldviews and less on the construction of an ethical argument in specific situations. It makes a difference whether the ethicist is fundamentally seen as the border guard between the areas of the permissible and the forbidden, or whether ethics first of all has the task of surveying a partly unknown territory where we are not sure of the precise demarcations. In the modern understanding of nature, normative standards must be justified and can no longer be deduced from the description of a natural framework implying pre-existing moral rules.
Pp. 387-444