The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism

ISBN-13: 9780198846215 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 240 str.

Alastair Wilson

Recenzje

The Nature of Contingency is an invaluable source of how to properly do scientific metaphysics.

O autorze

Alastair Wilson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University. He was President of the Society for Metaphysics of Science in 2017-18, Honorary Secretary of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science in 2018-19, and is currently leading FraMEPhys, a five-year project on metaphysical explanation in physics funded by the European Research Council. He works in the emerging subfield of metaphysics of science, a branch of philosophy which draws on contemporary scientific discoveries to help answer ancient questions about the underlying nature of reality.