At the Center of the Universe
Subtitle: Essays on Western Intellectual Space
Publisher: Mordecai Plaut
Published: September 1983
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780961208806
Subjects: Philosophy; Philosophy (General); Judaism
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Where are We?  1; title: Notes on an Outmoded World View  8; title: *It is (mechanically) true to say that the earth goes around the sun and also to say that the sun goes around the earth. It is all relative. But really, the sun goes around the earth.; title: The Rise of the Science of Economics and the Idea of Gain  33; title: *Modern economic theory and the use of markets to regulate production and distribution of goods and services rest on some big assumptions, and they are not necessarily universal patterns of human behavior.; title: How to Succeed in Knowing without Really Seeing 59; title: *A solid tradition is a logically valid way of knowing things. Much stronger than empirical evidence, it has the power of mathematical induction.; title: Reason and Random 77; title: *If the world is fundamentally random, it is not reasonable. It may not be unreasonable to suggest; title: *that the world is a result of random processes, but it is deeply hostile to reason itself.; title: A Timely Note 91; title: *Based on an analysis of the essentials of a measurement system, in particular a measurement system for time, this essay argues that the days mentioned in Genesis cannot be the same as our days. They must be measures on a different basis. It shows how the error of scientists is "reasonable," and does not really support any attacks on the Bible.; title: A Look into Proofs of G-d  108; title: A Sound Mind  140; title: The Scientist as Poet; the Baal Mesorah as Scientist  153; title: *Science, at its best, is poetic fiction – mythmaking. Torah is truth.