Facing Reality: A Challenge to Physicalism: Volume 3 (Metaphysica in Nuce) - Softcover

Duncan, Steven Merle

 
9781535386531: Facing Reality: A Challenge to Physicalism: Volume 3 (Metaphysica in Nuce)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1535386533 ISBN 13: 9781535386531
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Contemporary Analytic metaphysics affirms some pretty surprising claims, such as that ordinary material things, such as tables, chairs, the bodies of persons, their brains, etc. do not exist. The source of all these absurd views is their common and generally unspoken commitment to Galilean Physicalism, the thesis that nothing exists except what is "quantified over" by contemporary physics, which is usually restricted to elemental particles, their properties, forces, and fields. This volume in the Metaphysica in Nuce series attacks Galilean Physicalism on metaphysical grounds and prepares the way for a return to the traditional realism represented by an Aristotelian ontology of material things.

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Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1535386533
ISBN 13 
9781535386531
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
180