Good and Real : Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics.
Title:
Good and Real : Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics.
Author:
Drescher, Gary L.
ISBN:
9780262271943
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (365 pages)
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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