Basic Structures of Reality: Essays in Meta-Physics
Author:   Colin McGinn (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Miami)
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Pages:   256
Publication Date:   05 January 2012
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Author:   Colin McGinn (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Miami)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.458kg
ISBN:  

9780199841103


ISBN 10:   0199841101
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   05 January 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
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PART ONE Introduction: Philosophy and Physics Chapter 1: The Concept of Matter Postscript: Particles as Fields: An Objection Appendix One: The Uniformity of Matter Appendix Two: Divisibility and Size Chapter 2: What is a Physical Object? Chapter 3: The Possibility of Motion Chapter 4: Motion, Change, and Physics Chapter 5: The Law of Inertia Chapter 6: Mass, Gravity, and Motion Chapter 7: Electric Charge: A Case Study Chapter 8: Two Types of Science Chapter 9: The Ontology of Energy Chapter 10: Consciousness as a Form of Matter Chapter 11: Matter and Meaning PART TWO Principia Metaphysica

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<br> McGinn defends structuralism in this well-argued, engaging book at the intersection of epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and physics. --CHOICE<br><p><br>


<br> McGinn defends structuralism in this well-argued, engaging book at the intersection of epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and physics. --CHOICE<br><p><br> Very metaphorical, but perhaps it is only by trying to state these metaphors clearly that we will eventually win our way to a more satisfactory view of laws than we have at present. So McGinn thinks, and this reader agrees. --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews<p><br>


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Colin McGinn is Professor of Philosophy, University of Miami. He is the author of 18 books including Ethics, Evil, and Fiction (1997), Minds and Bodies (1997), Consciousness and Its Objects (2004), The Meanings of Disgust; also Shakespeare's Philosophy, The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World, The Making of a Philosopher, Mindsight: Image, Dream, and Meaning and others.

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