Sentences with phrase «influence on cosmology»

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Whitehead entitled his explosively original «essay in cosmology,» Process and Reality.1 The title led to a subsequent emphasis on a way of thinking called «process thought,» or «process theology,» among those who came under his towering influence.

On the contrary it is quite certain that his cosmology, though strongly influenced by «On Mathematical Concepts of the Material World,» was still a «free creation of the human mind.»

I am sure also that the existential meanings I draw from Whitehead's cosmology are deeply affected by the influence of Wesley on my life.

Quite apart from this problematic classification of Anglo - American realists and American pragmatists (cf. GMPT 136 - 80) such conventional associations tend to obscure, rather than elucidate the influence of evolutionist theories on Whitehead's philosophical development, and do nothing to clarify the actual influence on, or to evaluate the compatibility of evolutionary cosmologies with, Whitehead's philosophy.

The influence of these older evolutionary cosmologies on Whitehead's thought, moreover, is never carefully examined so much as it is presupposed.1 Against such presuppositions, I shall argue here that evolution and evolutionist theories play no significant role in Whitehead's metaphysics, and that there is no evidence in his major works of any significant influence from earlier process - oriented «evolutionary cosmologies.»

One might be tempted to argue at this point that we have discerned the transforming influence of the cosmology of «emergent evolution» at least on Whitehead's thinking.

Gray's own attempt to call attention to the historical priority of evolutionary cosmologies is motivated, however, by a quite different concern (with which I take strong exception), expressed in an unpublished paper: «the particular influence of evolutionary theories on Whitehead's work has been overlooked» (EEWP 1, 28).

«The first supernovae are especially interesting not only to people who study stars but also those doing cosmology,» said Ken Chen, an astrophysicist at the East Asian Core Observatories Association (EACOA) and lead author on a paper in The Astrophysical Journal that examines how the first supernovae influenced star formation and, along with it, the evolution of the universe.

Cosmosis investigates how the cosmos and the scientific fields of physics and cosmology continue to inspire artistic production, exerting great influence on our understanding of the universe and our place therein.

Curated by Steven Bridges for the Hyde Park Art Center and Contemporary Arts Council, Cosmosis investigated how the cosmos and the field of Cosmology continue to inspire artistic production and exert influence on human understanding of the universe — and our place therein.

These works draw on influences as diverse as cosmology, science fiction and Sufism and re-imagine moments across time frames, cultures and histories.