Appearance in Reality

by John Heil

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 equally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198865457
• ISBN13: 9780198865452
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"