From Physics to Metaphysics (Tarner Lectures)

Redhead, Michael

ISBN 10: 0521474051 / ISBN 13: 9780521474054

Edité par Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 1995

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Fine cloth first edition with brilliant gilt lettering on spine and Fine DJ. There is one short margin note at the top of p. 36 but otherwise the book is flawless. No other markings anywhere, no creases, no tears. The DJ has a crease that runs along the bottom 1/2 inch of the front cover but is otherwise As New. Index. 92 pages.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: From Physics to Metaphysics (Tarner Lectures)
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521474051
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521474054
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine

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Synopsis

The book is drawn from the Tarner lectures, delivered in Cambridge in 1993. It is concerned with the ultimate nature of reality, and how this is revealed by modern physical theories such as relativity and quantum theory. The objectivity and rationality of science are defended against the views of relativists and social constructionists. It is claimed that modern physics gives us a tentative and fallible, but nevertheless rational, approach to the nature of physical reality. The role of subjectivity in science is examined in the fields of relativity theory, statistical mechanics and quantum theory, and recent claims of an essential role for human consciousness in physics are rejected. Prospects for a 'Theory of Everything' are considered, and the related question of how to assess scientific progress is carefully examined.