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Basic Structures of Reality - Essays in Meta-Physics (Hardcover)
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Basic Structures of Reality - Essays in Meta-Physics (Hardcover)
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In Basic Structures of Reality, Colin McGinn deals with questions
of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind from the
vantage point of physics. Combining general philosophy with
physics, he covers such topics as the definition of matter, the
nature of space, motion, gravity, electromagnetic fields, the
character of physical knowledge, and consciousness and meaning.
Throughout, McGinn maintains an historical perspective and seeks to
determine how much we really know of the world described by
physics. He defends a version of "structuralism": the thesis that
our knowledge is partial and merely abstract, leaving a large
epistemological gap at the center of physics. McGinn then connects
this element of mystery to parallel mysteries in relation to the
mind. Consciousness emerges as just one more mystery of physics. A
theory of matter and space is developed, according to which the
impenetrability of matter is explained as the deletion of volumes
of space. McGinn proposes a philosophy of science that
distinguishes physics from both psychology and biology, explores
the ontology of energy, and considers the relevance of physics to
seemingly remote fields such as the theory of meaning. In the form
of a series of aphorisms, the author presents a metaphysical system
that takes laws of nature as fundamental. With its broad scope and
deep study of the fundamental questions at the heart of philosophy
of physics, this book is not intended primarily for specialists,
but for the general philosophical reader interested in how physics
and philosophy intersect.
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