Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge

A sequence of philosophical essays seeks foundational principles for human knowledge, arguing that understanding requires examining the conditions that make measurement and conception possible. It treats periodicity as essential to the measurement of time and to biological rhythms, traces physical concepts to sensation, memory, and imagination, contrasts two prevailing theories of knowledge, and develops a doctrine of energy that ties material constraint and force to perception and change. Through critical reflections on contemporary science the essays probe the capacities and limits of thought and the relation between dynamic processes and conceptual formation.