Appearance in Reality
In Appearance in Reality, John Heil addresses a question at the heart of metaphysics: how are the appearances related to reality, how does what we find in the sciences comport with what we encounter in everyday experience and in the laboratory? Objects, for instance, appear to be colourful, noisy, self-contained, and massively interactive. Physics tells us they are dynamic swarms of colourless particles, or disturbances in fields, or something equallystrange. Is what we experience illusory, present only in our minds? But then what are minds? Do minds elude physics? Or are the physicist's depictions mere constructs with no claim to reality? Pe…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-263480-1
- EAN: 9780192634801
- Produktnummer: 37419092
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: PDF
Über den Autor
John Heil is professor of philosophy at Washington University in St Louis and at Durham University, and an Honorary Research Associate at Monash University. He works primarily on topics in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind and is author of a number of books, including The Universe as We Find It (Oxford, 2012), From an Ontological Point of View (Oxford, 2003), Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2012), TheNature of True Minds (Cambridge, 1992), and Perception and Cognition (California, 1983). He is Editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
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