Name der Zeitschrift: Nietzsche-Studien Jahrgang: 42 Heft: 1 Seiten: 298-298.

Costa de Beauregard here offers a compact exposition of his views concerning the statistical nature of temporal phenomena, views complementary to those included in the companion volume, La Notion de Temps. The "science of time," according to Costa de Beauregard, can be subsumed under two important principles: the first trading on the Aristotelian equivalence between time and motion, the second based on those "irreversible" phenomena which define an "arrow of time." This book deals expressly with this second principle, touching interestingly (...) on the related problems of cybernetics, entropy and information theory.—G. S. M. (shrink)

In this volume the author adopts a rather unusual and unorthodox position regarding selected constructs of modern micro-physics. For example, he argues that the hypothesis of extra-nuclear electrons is not required by any empirical or methodological considerations whatever, and that their supposition within the body of micro-physical theory is thus unwarranted and productive of several well-known epistemological dilemmas. Larson quotes many and diverse contemporary sources, and succeeds in rattling all the appropriate skeletons in the physicist's closet. He fails, however, to (...) offer concise alternatives to the positions he so enthusiastically attacks.—G. S. M. (shrink)