A Minimalist Ontology of the Natural World

ISBN-13: 9781138307308 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 182 str.

Michael Esfeld; Dirk-Andrae Deckert; Dustin Lazarovici

Opis

This book proposes an ontology of the natural world that is defined only by two axioms: (1) there are distance relations that individuate simple objects, namely matter points, and (2) the matter points are permanent, with the distances between them changing.

O autorze

Michael Esfeld is full professor of philosophy of science at the University of Lausanne since 2002. His last book with Routledge is Conservative reductionism (with Christian Sachse) (2008).

Dirk-André Deckert is leader of the junior research group «　Interaction of Light and Matter　» in the Mathematical Institute of Ludwig Maximilians University Munich. Book publication Electromagnetic absorber theory – a mathematical study (2010).