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10) What is Reality?
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What is reality? What is the universe made of, how does it work? In this Horizon program, Theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind, Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek, cosmologist Max Tegmark, quantum mechanic Seth Lloyd, experimental physicist Anton Zeilinger and particle physicist Rob Roser reveal their astonishing visions of reality. It may be vast, beautiful and terrifyingly complex, but understanding the nature of reality is one of the most important...
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Dame Iris Murdoch, who has written several works of philosophy as well as twenty-four distinguished novels, now crowns her philosophic quest with a book that asks many questions and reflects on the essential aspects of the great subject: moral philosophy. Among her concerns are the roles literature, politics, art, and science play in the search for morality in a world that avoids the issue. What is morality, after all, Murdoch asks. Is it important?...
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Time, Change and Freedom is the first introduction to metaphysics that uses the idea of time as a unifying principle. Time is used to relate the many issues involved in the complex study of metaphysics. Sections of the book are written in dialogue form which allows the reader to question the theories while they read and have those queries answered in the text. In addition, the authors provide glossaries of key terms as well as recommendations for...
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"Quantum theory predicts experimental results brilliantly but simultaneously raises difficult conceptual issues. Paradoxes such as Schrodinger's cat, the EPR paradox, or the nonlocality demanded by Bell's inequalities have hampered philosophers in their attempts to include quantum-theory when discussing the relation between mind and matter. Pylkkanen proposes that Bohm's alternative interpretation of quantum theory resolves these paradoxes and thus...
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"The book is drawn from the Tarner Lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1993. It is concerned with the ultimate nature of reality, and how this is revealed by modern physical theories such as relativity and quantum theory. The objectivity and rationality of science are defended against the views of relativists and social constructivists. It is claimed that modern physics gives us a tentative and fallible, but nevertheless rational, approach to the nature...
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Harré shows how various views about the nature of science are related to the great historical schools of philosophy. He sets out his argument in terms of concrete episodes in the history of science. Harré also examines the theory that science is a form of art, and looks at the way scientific knowledge affects out religious beliefs.
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The Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirerʹs works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science -- the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which man has expressed himself and given intelligible objective form to this experience. -- Back cover.
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Descartes is widely regarded to be the father of modern philosophy and his Meditations is among the most important philosophical texts ever written. This book introduces the major themes in Descartes' great book and acts as a companion for reading this key work, examining: The context of Descartes' work and the background to his writing. Each separate part of the text in relation to its goals, meanings and impact The reception the book received when...
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"A collection of essays ... in which Westphal carefully explores the nature and the structure of a postmodern Christian philosophy. ... [He] offers masterful studies of Heidegger's early lectures on Paul and Augustine, the idea of hermeneutics, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Derrida, and Nietzsche, all in the service of building his argument that postmodern thinking offers an indispensable tool for rethinking Christian faith."--Publisher description.
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"Discovery and Decision takes a fresh look at the philosophical question of scientific classification, by illustrating that the natural world can be divided into competing classes or kinds, all of which are scientifically significant; by showing that scientists make a choice between competing classifications when they carve up the natural world: scientific classification involves both metaphysics (the way the world is) and epistemology (human aims,...
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