The Universe as We Find It

by John Heil

Book Overview

What does reality encompass? Is reality exclusively physical? Or does reality include nonphysical--mental, and perhaps 'abstract'--aspects? What is it to be physical or mental, or to be an abstract entity? What are the elements of being, reality's raw materials? How is the manifest image we inherit from our culture and refine in the special sciences related to the scientific image as we have it in fundamental physics? Can physics be understood as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199596204
• ISBN13: 9780199596201
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"