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A Theory of Monads: Outlines of the Philosophy of the Principle of Relativity

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Since the publication of this book, a little more than a year ago, the interest in Einstein and the principle of relativity has very greatly increased. There are now a large number of popular expositions, and the theory itself has undergone some notable advances in its philosophical, mathematical and physical application. In pure philosophy Lord Haldane's Reign of Relativity has applied it to the direct interpretation of the theory of knowledge. In mathematical physics the important work of Hermann Weyl, Space-Time-Matter, is an advance even on Einstein, and applies the principle not only to the geometry of masses, but to that of intermolecular movements, and to electro-magnetic phenomena generally, thus making it embrace the physical world in its entirety.

The main purpose of this book is to show the historical relations of the new principle to the old philosophical problems and to the classical theories
of space and time. I have, with the exception of a few important emendations, left the historical chapters unaltered, but I have added a new
chapter on "Einstein's Theory" in order to show more clearly than the original work did the nature of the revolution which it effects in
scientific method and in the concept of physical reality. - Summary by Preface (0 hr 54 min)

Chapters

Introduction

27:01

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The Windowless Monad

50:30

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A Monad's Perspective

44:56

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The Concept of Nature in Physical Science

50:58

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The Concept of Nature in Philosophy

37:38

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The Idea of God

54:06

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The Moment of Experience

1:18:28

Read by Curtis K.

Memory: The Fundamental Fact in Experience

59:25

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The Diversity in Union of Body and Mind, part 1

45:41

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The Diversity in Union of Body and Mind, part 2

43:12

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The Mechanism of Psycho-Physical Activity

52:26

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Monadic Intercourse

30:16

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The A Priori Synthesis

56:34

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The Concrete Universal

40:34

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Creative Evolution

44:26

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The Experimental Method

32:23

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The Principle of Relativity

26:13

Read by Julian Pratley