The Question of Reality - Softcover

Munitz, Milton K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691020914 ISBN 13: 9780691020914

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1992

Synopsis

When we read that scientists have come close to pinpointing the "origin of the universe" by means of a Big Bang cosmology, or are engaged in formulating a "theory of everything" as in current ten-dimensional superstring theories of particle physics, can we doubt that such inquiries or their results inevitably raise important philosophical questions? In the present book, as well as in his previous work Cosmic Understanding, the renowned philosopher Milton Munitz attempts to answer some of these questions by examining recent scientific theories of cosmology in a philosophical context.

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When we read that scientists have come close to pinpointing the 'origin of the universe' by means of a Big Bang cosmology, or are engaged in formulating a 'theory of everything, ' as in current ten-dimensional superstring theories of particle physics, can we doubt that such inquiries or their results inevitably raise important philosophical questions? In the present work, as well as in his previous work Cosmic Understanding (Princeton, 1986), the renowned philosopher Milton Munitz attempts to answer some of these questions by examining recent scientific theories of cosmology in a philosophical context.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691020914
• ISBN 13: 9780691020914
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224