عنوان

The Metaphysics within physics

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eng

عنوان اصلي

The Metaphysics within physics

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What fundamental account of the world is implicit in physical theory? Physics straight-forwardly 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. Book jacket.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Oxford

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Oxford University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2007

نام خاص و کميت اثر

197 p.: ill.; 25 cm.

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references )p. ]192[-194( and index.

متن يادداشت

ISBN: 9780199218219

متن يادداشت

Tim Maudlin

متن يادداشت

1

متن يادداشت

A modest proposal concerning laws, counterfactuals, and explanations - - Why be Humean? -- Suggestions from physics for deep metaphysics -- On the passing of time -- Causation, counterfactuals, and the third factor -- The whole ball of wax -- Epilogue : a remark on the method of metaphysics.

عنصر شناسه ای

، Metaphysics

عنصر شناسه ای

، Physics -- Philosophy

شماره رده

شماره رده

شماره رده

عنصر شناسه اي

Maudlin, Tim

کد نقش

AU

عنصر شناسه اي

TI