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"What does reality encompass? Is reality exclusively physical? Or does reality include nonphysical--mental, and perhaps 'abstract'--aspects? What is it to be physical or mental, or to be an abstract entity? What are the elements of being, reality's new materials? How is the manif...
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Clarendon Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"What does reality encompass? Is reality exclusively physical? Or does reality include nonphysical--mental, and perhaps 'abstract'--aspects? What is it to be physical or mental, or to be an abstract entity? What are the elements of being, reality's new materials? How is the manifest image we inherit from our culture and refine in the special sciences related to the scientific image as we have it in fundamental physics? Can physics be understood as providing a 'theory of everything', or do the various sciences make up a hierarchy corresponding to autonomous levels of reality? Is our conscious |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 311 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-303) and index. |
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9780198738978 (pbk.) : 0198738978 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | BD331 |
| CLC: | B016 |
| Call Number: | B016/H466 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Substance -- Substance stressed -- Properties -- Universals -- Causing -- Relations -- Truthmaking -- Reduction, kinds, and essences -- Mind and mentality -- Consciousness -- Conscious thought -- The ontological turn. |