Reality: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) - Softcover

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Westerhoff, Jan

 
9780199594412: Reality: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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ISBN 10: 0199594414 ISBN 13: 9780199594412
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Is matter real? Are persons real? Is time real? This Very Short Introduction discusses what, if anything, is "real" by looking at a variety of arguments from philosophy, physics, and cognitive science. Jan Westerhoff shows that the question "what is real?" is not some esoteric puzzle that only philosophers ponder. Scientists also ask this question when they investigate whether candidates for the fundamental constituents of matter are actually "out there" or just a mere abstraction from a successful theory and cognitive scientists ask it when trying to find out which set of the bewildering array of data processed by our brain could constitute the basis for the self.

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Jan Westerhoff is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Durham.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0199594414
ISBN 13 
9780199594412
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
123
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