A Beginner's Guide to Reality by Jim Baggott - ISBN: 9780141019307
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Unpeel reality’s layers: Money, colors, photons - what’s really real?

A Beginner's Guide to Reality

  • Paperback

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    3 October 2005

Summary

Accessible guide for people who wouldn’t normally read philosophy

A Beginner’s Guide to Reality is an introduction to philosophy for people who don’t read philosophy. Jim Baggott’s sources range from Aristotle to The Matrix. He examines the major developments in Western philosophical thought on the nature of reality, at each of three levels - social, perceptual and physical. (Do money, colour, or photons exist?) The book systematically investigates these levels, peeling away the assum…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141019307
ISBN-10:0141019301
Author:Jim Baggott
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Edition:1st
Release Date:3 October 2005
Weight:202g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 16mm
About The Author

Jim Baggott

Jim Baggott worked as an academic and in the oil industry for 11 years before setting up his own independent management consultancy practice. He was awarded the Marlow Medal by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1989 and a Glaxo Science Writer’s prize in 1992. His previous books include Beyond Measure- Modern Physics, Philosophy and the Meaning of Quantum Theory, The Meaning of Quantum Theory- a Guide for Students of Chemistry and Physics and Perfect Symmetry- The Accidental Discovery of Buckminsterfullerene.

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