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050 00 $aQC6.4.R42$bR43 1995
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100 1 $aRedhead, Michael.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86006167
245 10 $aFrom physics to metaphysics /$cby Michael Redhead.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bUniversity of Cambridge,$c1995.
263 $a9509
300 $axiii, 92 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"The Tarner lectures delivered at Cambridge in Feb. 1993."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIsms and Schisms --$g2.$tScience and Subjectivity --$g3.$tExperimental Metaphysics --$g4.$tTheories of Everything.
520 $aThe 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.
520 8 $aThe 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.
650 0 $aReality.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85111773
650 0 $aPhysics$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85101663
650 0 $aMetaphysics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084286
650 0 $aQuantum theory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85109469
740 0 $aTarner lectures delivered at Cambridge.
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