Not exact matches
A general review of the endnotes from Gunter's paper reveals a fair number of sources who will corroborate the claim that Bergson's
scientific views are nor only not outdated, but go very»
much to the heart of current
scientific methods and insights, but particularly, see A. C. Papanicolaou and Pete A. N. Gunter, eds., Bergson in Modern Thought Towards a Unified Science (New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987), and for important
background on how Bergson came to be seen as dated when he was not, see also, Milic Capek, Bergson and Modern Physics, (cited above) and The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics (Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1961), and the volume edited by Gunter, Bergson and the Evolution of Physics (cited above).
Depending upon how
much information you get, you might be able to look up individuals and find out about their
scientific backgrounds and interests.
I have read as
much about this controversy as I ever intend to, and come to the firm conviction that I don't have the technical
background and / or time required to make a
scientific judgment on the issue one way or another.
And before I can get
much further into the how and why of things, I'd better flesh out the rest of the What's, the slow
background changes which made the abrupt coolings such a surprise to the
scientific world in the 1990s.
Jelle Bijma http://www.awi.de/People/show?jbijma seems to have a sufficiently solid
scientific background, even if his research interests — Ocean Warming and Acidification; Proxy Development and Innovation; The Earth System on Long Time Scales — are ones we see too
much confidence about in the broader debate.
Given the right circumstances,
background knowledge, and
scientific information on current conditions, it can provide an excellent sense of how
much ice there really is «on the ground.»