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Autore: |
Drescher Gary L
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Titolo: |
Good and real : demystifying paradoxes from physics to ethics / / Gary L. Drescher
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Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (364 p.) |
Disciplina: | 146/.6 |
Soggetto topico: | Mechanism (Philosophy) |
Philosophy of mind | |
Ethics | |
Note generali: | "A Bradford book". |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-337) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Framing the Big Picture -- 2 Dust to Lust: How Groups of Atoms Can Think and Feel -- 3 Going without the Flow: The Frozen Stream of Time -- 4 Quantum Certainty -- 5 Deterministic Choice, Part 1: Inalterability Does Not Imply Futility -- 6 Deterministic Choice, Part 2: Newcomb's Problem and Beyond -- 7 Deriving Ought from Is -- 8 The Anticlimactic Meaning of Life -- References -- Index. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Examining a series of provocative paradoxes about consciousness, choice, ethics, and other topics, Good and Real tries to reconcile a purely mechanical view of the universe with key aspects of our subjective impressions of our own existence. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Good and real ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-262-29389-7 |
1-282-09801-2 | |
9786612098017 | |
0-262-27194-X | |
1-4237-7445-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910815610303321 |
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