A Beginner's Guide to Reality: Exploring Our Everyday Adventures in Wonderland

Baggott, Jim

ISBN 10: 1605980641 / ISBN 13: 9781605980645

Verlag: Pegasus Books, 2009

Beschreibung

The book is complete and readable, with all pages and cover intact. Dust jacket, shrink wrap, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may have light notes, highlighting, or minor water exposure, but nothing that affects readability. May be an ex-library copy and could include library markings or stickers.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BSM.O8EC

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A Beginner's Guide to Reality: Exploring Our Everyday Adventures in Wonderland
• Verlag: Pegasus Books
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1605980641
• ISBN-13: 9781605980645
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: acceptable

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Inhaltsangabe

Have you ever wondered if the world is really there when you re not looking? We tend to take the reality of our world very much for granted. This book will lead you down the rabbit hole in search of something we can point to, hang our hats on, and say this is real. Along the way Jim Baggott presents the important arguments concerning the nature reality as examined by the world s greatest thinkers from the philosophers of ancient Greece to modern scientists and social theorists and takes on materialism, perception, and progress in a refreshingly new and entertaining way.

Críticas

Jim Baggott has done a real service to the community of questing souls. He gives a lucid, thoughtful, and helpful account of one of this century s great conundrums. (Times Literary Supplement) "

Baggott has an entertaining style, with clever use of analogies and diagrams. The book s realist honesty shines like a beacon through the fog of contemporary mystical speculations. (New Scientist) "

Reading this book is like having an informal, intimate conversation with and informed thinker. Enthusiastically recommended... (Library Journal, starred review) "