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The Metaphysics Within Physics (Paperback)
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What fundamental account of the world is implicit in physical
theory? Physics straightforwardly postulates quarks and electrons,
but what of the more intangible elements, such as laws of nature,
universals, causation and the direction of time? Do they have a
place in the physical structure of the world?
Tim Maudlin argues that the ontology derived from physics takes a
form quite different from those most commonly defended by
philosophers. Physics postulates irreducible fundamental laws,
eschews universals, does not require a fundamental notion of
causation, and makes room for the passage of time. In a series of
linked essays The Metaphysics Within Physics outlines an approach
to metaphysics opposed to the Humean reductionism that motivates
much analytical metaphysics.
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