Table of Contents
- Lectures
- How can we improve recycling ?
- Is recycling possible?
- What is entropy?
- What work does the Earth do as a heat engine?
- How original is Galileo's work on kinematics?
- Why was Galileo convicted of heresy?
- My proposal for a new zero-based calendar
- How should scientists deal with occult phenomena?
- Why did Sumerians use the sexagesimal system?
- Philosophy of substance versus philosophy of nothingness
- What is a paradigm?
- The future of the peer-review systems
- Why did Copernicus propose heliocentrism?
- What is an indefinite integral?
- The Copernican Revolution of infiniteness
- Why did Leibniz suppose the pre-established harmony?
- Does God exist because perfect?
- Why was the phlogiston theory supported?
- Why are Cartesian coordinate systems Cartesian?
- Skepticism on Humean skepticism
- What does philosophy start from?
- Essays
- The Reasons I left Japanese Universities
- Who can be a Scapegoat?
- Why are Center and Periphery separated?
- The Desire for Difference
- What is the New Economy?
- Is the Lock-in a Market Failure?
- The Requisites for the defacto Standard
- Money and Language
- Are Speculators Harmful?
- What is Money?
- What is a Social System?
- The Paradox of Democracy
- The Optimum Allocation of the Resources
- Is Consumption Different from Production?
- The Economics of Moral Value
- What is Value?
- What is Definition?
- What is the Essence of Individuals
- Existence and Essence
- Is our Existence absurd?
- The Difference between Cause and Reason
- How do we make Space 3D?
- Why are we conscious of Time?
- What is the transcendental Recognition?
- The Difference between Anxiety and Fear
- Who is the Victim of Authoritarianism?
- What is Feminism?
- Are Freedom and Equality Compatible?
- Why is the Pronoun "I" necessary?
- What is Love?
- What is Happiness?
- Why is our Language incomplete?
- Are there Other Minds?
- What is Life?
- What is Truth?
- What is Consciousness?
- The Asymmetric Exchange System
- What is Autopoiesis?
- What is an Element?
- The System of Cognition
- The Rhythm of Life
- The Best Energy Source
- What's the Matter with the Global Warming?
- A Pigovian Tax as a Population Policy
- Is the Zero-Emission Recycling Possible?
- Are All Fractals Complex Systems?
- What is a Complex System?
- Chaos and Determinism
- From the second law of thermodynamics to the Law of Entropy
- What is a System?
- Notes