WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/34380474

From physics to metaphysics : the Tarner lectures delivered at Cambridge under the auspices of Trinity College in February 1993

The book is drawn from the Tarner Lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1993. It is concerned with the ultimate nature of reality, and how this is revealed by modern physical theories such as relativity and quantum theory. The objectivity and rationality of science are defended against the views of relativists and social constructivists. It is claimed that modern physics gives us a tentative and fallible, but nevertheless rational, approach to the nature of physical reality. The role of subjectivity in science is examined in the fields of relativity theory, statistical mechanics and quantum theory, and recent claims of an essential role for human consciousness in physics are rejected. Prospects for a Theory of Everything are considered, and the related question of how to assess scientific progress is carefully examined. This is a non-technical discursive account of the interrelatedness of physics and metaphysics.

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

author

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • "The book is drawn from the Tarner Lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1993. It is concerned with the ultimate nature of reality, and how this is revealed by modern physical theories such as relativity and quantum theory. The objectivity and rationality of science are defended against the views of relativists and social constructivists. It is claimed that modern physics gives us a tentative and fallible, but nevertheless rational, approach to the nature of physical reality. The role of subjectivity in science is examined in the fields of relativity theory, statistical mechanics and quantum theory, and recent claims of an essential role for human consciousness in physics are rejected. Prospects for a Theory of Everything are considered, and the related question of how to assess scientific progress is carefully examined. This is a non-technical discursive account of the interrelatedness of physics and metaphysics."
  • "The book is drawn from the Tarner Lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1993. It is concerned with the ultimate nature of reality, and how this is revealed by modern physical theories such as relativity and quantum theory. The objectivity and rationality of science are defended against the views of relativists and social constructivists. It is claimed that modern physics gives us a tentative and fallible, but nevertheless rational, approach to the nature of physical reality. The role of subjectivity in science is examined in the fields of relativity theory, statistical mechanics and quantum theory, and recent claims of an essential role for human consciousness in physics are rejected. Prospects for a Theory of Everything are considered, and the related question of how to assess scientific progress is carefully examined. This is a non-technical discursive account of the interrelatedness of physics and metaphysics."@en

editor

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "From physics to metaphysics : the Tarner lectures, delivered at Cambridge under the auspices of Trinity College in February 1993"
  • "From physics to metaphysics : the Tarner Lectures delivered at Cambridge under the auspices of Trinity College in february 1993"
  • "From physics to metaphysics : the Tarner lectures delivered at Cambridge under the auspices of Trinity College in February 1993"
  • "From physics to metaphysics : the Tarner lectures delivered at Cambridge under the auspices of Trinity College in February 1993"@en
  • "From physics to metaphysics the Tarner lectures delivered under the auspices of Trinity College in February 1993"
  • "Apo tē physikē stē metaphysikē : dialexeis Tarner paradotheises sto Kaimpritz ypo tēn aigida tou Kollegiou Trinity ton Phevrouario tou 1993"
  • "From physics to metaphysics"@en
  • "From physics to metaphysics"

workExample