Download Give Space My Love: An Intellectual Odyssey with Dr. Stephen Hawking AudioBook Free
Who is the true Dr. Stephen Hawking? Is he a detached spectator seeking a numerical description of any deterministic, objective fact out there? Or is he an embodied participant in the world wanting to bring in regards to a more desired future? The timeline of the publication is a four-city lecture tour the author planned for Hawking in the first 1990s (Portland, Eugene, Seattle, and Vancouver, BC). Hawking's powerful meetings with students with disabilities, officially collateral incidents, were tremendous. However, the higher significance of these testimonies of the street is better loved in the context of the central narrative question of the publication: the nature of the world and our place/role in it. The writer, a philosopher of knowledge (Berkeley, London), engages Hawking, his graduate assistants and finally his nurses in what begins as a critical review of the new physics of Einstein, Bohr, and Heisenberg. The question of the boundaries of classical knowledge expands to questions of the boundaries of most supposedly objectivist, one-right-answer ideologies in natural, socio-economic, and politics realms. Is everyone really selfish? Is the world objectively competitive or cooperative? In a parallel critical review of the new beliefs of knowledge the efforts of the author's mentors, Feyerabend, Lakatos, Kuhn, and Popper tag a parallel path to complementarity, undermining the Spectator representation of detached objective inquiry. Through his personal connections, Hawking shows himself as a participant, concerned with how we should live. He steers us toward a far more desired, moral future. The new post-scientific participant knowledge of the universe requires a paradigm move to a far more basic theory that can both describe the successes of knowledge yet understand them in a fresh way. Within the more basic theory, our embodied participant inquiry is understood in a fresh way wherein the sciences and the humanities are actually reunified.
