Metaphysics Within Physics

Name: Metaphysics Within Physics
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199575374
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Автор: Tim Maudlin

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Издател: Oxford University Press

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What fundamental account of the world is implicit in physical theory? Physics straightforwardly post...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Tim Maudlin

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2009

страници

208

EAN

9780199575374

ISBN

0199575371

Enbook ID

04036383

Издател

Oxford University Press

Теглоt

318

Размери

156 x 234 x 12

Пълно описание

What fundamental account of the world is implicit in physical theory? Physics straightforwardly postulates quarks and electrons, but what of the more intangible elements, such as laws of nature, universals, causation and the direction of time? Do they have a place in the physical structure of the world? Tim Maudlin argues that the ontology derived from physics takes a form quite different from those most commonly defended by philosophers. Physics postulates irreducible fundamental laws, eschews universals, does not require a fundamental notion of causation, and makes room for the passage of time. In a series of linked essays The Metaphysics Within Physics outlines an approach to metaphysics opposed to the Humean reductionism that motivates much analytical metaphysics.

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