Materialism: a historical and philosophical inquiry
Auteur :
Brown, Robin / Ladyman, James
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780367201340
Date de publication :
13 mai 2019
Dimensions :
19,8 x 12,9 cm
Poids :
290 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Opening with materialism’s early thinkers, including Epicurus, Hobbes and Hume up to Darwin and Marx, Brown and Ladyman explain how materialism’s beginnings as imaginative vision of the true natures and properties of things faced a major challenge from modern physics, in the form of quantum theory and the general theory of relativity.