Colin Mcginn

Basic Structures of Reality

Essays in Meta-Physics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Basic Structures of Reality, Colin McGinn deals with questions of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind from the vantage point of physics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 167mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780199841103
• ISBN-10: 0199841101
• Artikelnr.: 33722745

Autorenporträt

Colin McGinn is Professor of Philosophy, University of Miami. He is the author of 18 books including Ethics, Evil, and Fiction (1997), Minds and Bodies (1997), Consciousness and Its Objects (2004), The Meanings of Disgust; also Shakespeare's Philosophy, The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World, The Making of a Philosopher, Mindsight: Image, Dream, and Meaning and others.

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE
Introduction: Philosophy and Physics
Chapter 1: The Concept of Matter
Postscript: Particles as Fields: An Objection
Appendix One: The Uniformity of Matter
Appendix Two: Divisibility and Size
Chapter 2: What is a Physical Object?
Chapter 3: The Possibility of Motion
Chapter 4: Motion, Change, and Physics
Chapter 5: The Law of Inertia
Chapter 6: Mass, Gravity, and Motion
Chapter 7: Electric Charge: A Case Study
Chapter 8: Two Types of Science
Chapter 9: The Ontology of Energy
Chapter 10: Consciousness as a Form of Matter
Chapter 11: Matter and Meaning
PART TWO
Principia Metaphysica