Good and real : demystifying paradoxes from physics to ethics / Gary L. Drescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drescher, Gary L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mechanism (Philosophy).

Philosophy of mind.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

"A Bradford book".

Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-337) and index.

ISBN:

0-262-29389-7

1-282-09801-2

9786612098017

0-262-27194-X

1-4237-7445-0

OCLC:

69650239