Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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 strange. Is what we experience illusory present only in our minds? But then what are minds? Do minds elude physics? Or are the physicist's depictions mere constructs with no claim to reality? Perhaps reality is hierarchical: physics encompasses the fundamental things the less than fundamental things are dependent on but distinct from these. Heil's investigation advances a fourth possibility: the scientific image (what we have in physics) affords our best guide to the nature of what the appearances are appearances of.
Title: Appearance In Reality
Author(s): Heil John (Professor Of Philosophy Professor Of Philosophy Washington University In St Louis And Durham University And Honorary Research Associate Monash University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198865452
Pages: 278 Pages
Publication Date: 11/16/2021
Category: Philosophy: Epistemology & Theory Of Knowledge