Arthur Gibson

The chapter evaluates the terminology used to address the assumption of a ‘dark energy’ in astrophysics. In a brief retrospection, the author contrasts the scientific principles underlying physics and philosophy. In this context the view that all truths derive from logical and scientific investigation and that this is self-evident is put in question. First, the author presents an analyses of intuition and second, counter-intuition is studied in the context of ‘dark energy’, an unknown form of energy that is supposed to counteract gravity and accelerate the expansion of the universe. In the first part, definitions of intuition and counterintuition are discussed by making reference to philosophers such as Lewy, Russell, Frege, Wittgenstein and Carnap. The author discusses several problems of counter-intuition in relation to logic, mathematics and astrophysics and finally presents a summary of the current state of research.

This book publishes the previously unpublished Wittgenstein-Skinner Archive held in Trinity College Cambridge Wren Library. The principal Editor is Arthur Gibson, joined by the Editor Niamh O'Mahony in the editing project. The manuscripts were transcribed by Arthur Gibson, checked and edited by Niamh O'Mahony and Arthur Gibson, with additional assistance from Kelsey Gibson. The Chapters that reproduce the Archive, including the Preface, and Part I (chapters 1 and 2) are authored by Arthur Gibson. Arthur Gibson and Niamh O'Mahony jointly edited the Appendices and variously authored parts of the Appendices' introductions and notes. The Foreword was contributed by Professor Brian McGuinness.

An original theory of some relations between certain aspects of sampled dead languages, compared to and contrasted with a variery of partially connectible formal languages. This is the context for a new analysis of competing and conflicting scholarly accounts of typical semantic fields in the ancent uses of these languages. Actual textual examples are deployedthroughout this book to embed its proceedings in actual creative narrative. A further layer of engagement is to engage in assessing the status of recent influential interpretations of these texts.

Metaphysics and Transcendence takes up this story for the future. Arthur Gibson presents a new metaphysics with a genealogy based on counter-intuition and locates counter-intuition and complexity at the foundations of truth. Having devised fresh concepts on the basis of the new frontiers of science and philosophy, the author presents original explanations of transcendence arguing that just as we need revolutionary and original ways of depicting the physical world, so it is with such topics as God, miracles, the resurrection, the source and identity of consciousness and reason itself