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Bezig met laden... The Analysis of Matterdoor Bertrand Russell
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 12/11/21 Philip Goff (in _Galileo's Error_, 2019) identifies this work as the beginning (further developed by Arthur Eddington in a 1928 book) of some thinkers' progression towards the modern-day kind of panpsychism sometimes ascribed to the Integrated Information Theory of consciousness. It combines the philosophy of perception with the science of physics to arrive at a denial of any great distinction between mind and matter -- what philosophers call neutral monism. For a professional philosopher, clearly, Russell was very well versed in physics, including the then-young relativity theory and the then-newborn Heisenberg/Schrödinger quantum theory. His writing exhibited quite a bit of male centeredness and a great deal of restrictive-relative-clause "whichiness" (as opposed to "thattiness"), but I'd say these stylistic negatives are excusable because of the time of the book's writing, as of course is the failure to mention not-yet-discovered neutrons when talking about atomic nuclei. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
The Analysis of Matter is the product of thirty years of thinking by one of the twentieth century's best-known philosophers. An inquiry into the philosophical foundations of physics, it was written against the background of stunning new developments in physics earlier in the century, above all relativity, as well as the excitement around quantum theory, which was just being developed. Concerned to place physics on a stable footing at a time of great theoretical change, Russell argues that the concept of matter itself can be replaced by a logical construction whose basic foundations are events. He is careful to point out that this does not prove that matter does not exist, but it does show that physicists can get on with their work without assuming that matter does exist. Russell argues that fundamental bits of ''matter'', such as electrons and protons, are simply groups of events connected in a certain way and their properties are all that are required for physics. This Routledge Classics edition includes the 1992 Introduction by John G. Slater. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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