Einstein, Tagore and the Nature of Reality

Partha Ghose is an Honorary Scientist at The National Academy of Sciences, India

Introduction Kathleen M. O’Connell 1. Einstein, the Reality of Space and the Action-Reaction Principle Harvey R. Brown and Dennis Lehmkuhl 2. The Hole Argument and the Nature of Spacetime: A Critical Review from a Constructivist Perspective Tian Yu Cao 3. Quantum Information and Reality, Especially the Reality of the Past and Future Charles H. Bennett 4. Einstein and Tagore, Newton and Blake, Everett and Bohr: The Dual Nature of Reality Anthony Sudbery 5. Toward Relational Reality: From Einstein and Tagore to Gaudiya Vaishnava Vedanta Ravi V. Gomatam 6. Science, Poiesis and Visions of Reality Tushar K. Sarkar 7. Physical Reality and the Unobservables of Physical Nature C. S. Unnikrishnan 8. High-Energy Physics and Post-Empiricism K. Sridhar 9. Cognitive Constraints on the Perception of Reality Avi Chaudhuri 10. Embodied Cognition and the Constructivist View of Reality Partha Ghose 11. Incompleteness Theorems and Realities: A Tale of Three Great Thinkers Mihir Kr. Chakraborty Appendix 1 Einstein-Tagore conversation on the Nature of Reality Appendix 2 Einstein-Tagore conversation on Youth, Causality and Music