Mark Wilson

Physics Avoidance

And Other Essays in Conceptual Strategy

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Produktbeschreibung

Mark Wilson explores our strategies for understanding the world. We frequently cannot reason about nature in the straightforward manner we anticipate, but must use alternative thought processes that reach useful answers in opaque and roundabout ways; and philosophy must find better descriptive tools to reflect this.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 178mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1157g
• ISBN-13: 9780198803478
• ISBN-10: 0198803478
• Artikelnr.: 48379555

Autorenporträt

Mark Wilson is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of Wandering Significance (OUP 2006). He has written widely on the relationships that bind together science, language and mathematics. He formerly edited the North American Traditions Series for Rounder records.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Pragmatics' Place at the Table
2: Physics Avoidance
3: From the Bending of Beams to the Problem of Free Will
4: Two Cheers for Anti-Atomism
5: The Greediness of Scales
6: Believers in the Land of Glory
7: Is There Life in Possible Worlds?
8: Semantic Mimicry
9: A Second Pilgrim's Progress