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Katharine Everett Gilbert (1886–1952) was an American philosopher who specialized in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. She was a founding trustee of the American Society for Aesthetics as well as its first woman president. Gilbert was also one of the first women to be president of a division of the American Philosophical Association. [1]
Hugh Everett III (/ ˈɛvərɪt /; November 11, 1930 – July 19, 1982) was an American physicist who, in his 1957 PhD thesis, proposed what is now known as the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics. In danger of losing his draft deferment, Everett took a research job with the Pentagon the year before completing the oral exam ...
Francis Ellingwood Abbot (November 6, 1836 – October 23, 1903) was an American philosopher and theologian who sought to reconstruct theology in accordance with the scientific method. [3] His lifelong romance with his wife, Katharine Fearing Loring, forms the subject of If Ever Two Were One , a collection of his correspondence and diary entries.
Katherine Everett (1872 – 1954) was an Anglo-Irish writer, memorist, and designer of houses and gardens. Life. Katherine Everett was born Kathleen Olive Herbert in 1872 in Cahernane House, County Kerry. Her father was Henry Herbert of the Muckross estate. Everett had a difficult and unhappy relationship with her mother, leading her to leave ...
Nicarete of Megara (fl. around 300 BCE) Ptolemais of Cyrene (3rd century BCE) Aesara of Lucania (3rd century BCE) Diotima of Mantinea (appears in Plato's Symposium) Ban Zhao (c. 35–100) D2. Catherine of Alexandria (282–305) Sosipatra of Ephesus (4th century CE) Xie Daoyun (before 340–after 399) Hypatia (c. 360–415 CE)
The quantum-mechanical "Schrödinger's cat" paradox according to the many-worlds interpretation.In this interpretation, every quantum event is a branch point; the cat is both alive and dead, even before the box is opened, but the "alive" and "dead" cats are in different branches of the multiverse, both of which are equally real, but which do not interact with each other.
Quantum suicide and immortality. Quantum suicide is a thought experiment in quantum mechanics and the philosophy of physics. Purportedly, it can falsify any interpretation of quantum mechanics other than the Everett many-worlds interpretation by means of a variation of the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment, from the cat's point of view.
Biologist, author of L'Histoire Naturelle considered Natural Selection and the similarities between humans and apes. Edmund Burke. 1729–1797. Irish. Parliamentarian and political philosopher, best known for pragmatism, considered important to both Enlightenment and conservative thinking. Joseph Butler. 1692–1752.