New Waves In Metaphysics
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Author | : A. Hazlett |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0230297420 |
A collection of new essays by young scholars on the cutting edge of this ancient philosophical area. Diverse topics, including ontology, free will, fundamental properties, and causation, the volume will appeal both to specialists and to anyone interested in the present and future state of metaphysics in the English-speaking world.
Author | : Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2008-11-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0230227279 |
The volume advances research in the philosophy of technology by introducing contributors who have an acute sense of how to get beyond or reframe the epistemic, ontological and normative limitations that currently limit the fields of philosophy of technology and science and technology studies.
Author | : M. Sprevak |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2014-03-23 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1137286733 |
Philosophy of mind is one of the core disciplines in philosophy. The questions that it deals with are profound, vexed and intriguing. This volume of 15 new cutting-edge essays gives young researchers a chance to stir up new ideas. The topics covered include the nature of consciousness, cognition, and action.
Author | : Michael S. Brady |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2010-11-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0230294898 |
Metaethics occupies a central place in analytical philosophy, and the last forty years has seen an upsurge of interest in questions about the nature and practice of morality. This collection presents original and ground-breaking research on metaethical issues from some of the very best of a new generation of philosophers working in this field.
Author | : J. Aguilar |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-10-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780230230606 |
A collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by some of the best young philosophers working on the myriad problems of action and agency. Each one has already made important contributions to the philosophy of action and cognate areas. The chapters reflect their research and make a significant contribution to some debate in the field.
Author | : T. Brooks |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2011-04-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0230305881 |
Bringing together the leading future figures in ethics broadly construed with essays ranging from metaethics and normative ethics to applied ethics and political philosophy, topics include new work on experimental philosophy, feminism, and global justice incorporating perspectives informed from historical and contemporary approaches alike.
Author | : Alyssa Ney |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0190097728 |
If quantum theories of the world are true-and empirical evidence suggests they are-what do they tell us about us, and the world? How should quantum theories make us reevaluate our classical conceptions of material objects? Nearly a century after the development of quantum theories, a consensus has yet to emerge. Many still wonder about what these theories may be telling us about ourselves and our place in the universe. Alyssa Ney here defends and develops a particular framework for understanding the world as it is described by quantum theories. This framework was initially suggested by Schrödinger in the 1920's and was further defended as an account of reality by two philosophers of physics in the 1990's who described it as a necessary point of view for those who argue that quantum theories are correct representations of our world. This framework is called wave function realism, which interprets quantum theories such that its central object is the quantum wave function, interpreted as a field on an extremely high-dimension space. This theory views us, and all objects, as ultimately constituted out of the wave function, and though we seem to occupy three dimensions, the fundamental spatial framework of quantum worlds consists of many more dimensions. Alyssa Ney argues for and advances this view, with the goal of making a case for how this theory how it might be applied to more other relativistic quantum theories, including quantum field theories. Her conclusion develops an account of how we as human beings might ultimately see ourselves and the objects around us as constituted out of the wave function.
Author | : Alyssa Ney |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2013-03-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019979054X |
This is a new volume of original essays on the metaphysics of quantum mechanics. The essays address questions such as: What fundamental metaphysics is best motivated by quantum mechanics? What is the ontological status of the wave function? What is the nature of the fundamental space (or space-time manifold) of quantum mechanics?
Author | : Peter Achinstein |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Physics |
ISBN | : 019506755X |
This volume brings together six published and two new essays by the noted philosopher of science, Peter Achinstein. It represents the culmination of his examination of methodological issues that arise in nineteenth-century physics. He focuses on the philosophical problem of how, if at all, it is possible to confirm scientific hypotheses that postulate 'unobservables' such as light waves, molecules, and electrons. This question is one that not only was of great interest to nineteenth-century physicists and methodologists, but continues to occupy philosophers of science up to the present day. The essays in this volume deal with this vexing problem as it arose in actual scientific practice in three nineteenth-century episodes: the debate between particle and wave theorists of light, Maxwell's kinetic theory of gases, and J.J. Thomson's discovery of the electron. Achinstein shows that the most important issue raised by these three cases concerns the legitimacy of introducing hypotheses that invoke "unobservables". If science is to be empirical, can such hypotheses be employed? How, if at all, is it possible to confirm them?; Achinstein here assesses the philosophical validity of nineteenth-century and modern answers to these questions and presents and defends his own solutions
Author | : C. Wright |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2010-07-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0230296998 |
What is truth? Philosophers are interested in a range of issues involving the concept of truth beginning with what sorts of things can be true. This is a collection of eighteen new and original research papers on truth and other alethic phenomena by twenty of the most promising young scholars working on truth today.