Good and real : demystifying paradoxes from physics to ethics / / Gary L. Drescher
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Drescher Gary L
|
| Titolo: |
Good and real : demystifying paradoxes from physics to ethics / / Gary L. Drescher
|
| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |