Reality

Fact Or Fiction: Mind, Matter, and the Shadows of Doubt

von Dave Milliken

460 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This thesis, Reality: Fact or Fiction, explores the deepest philosophical question: is the world we inhabit a solid fact, a projection of mind, or some uneasy mixture of both? From Berkeley's claim that to be is to be perceived to Kant's categories and the stubborn thing-in-itself, from Russell's common-sense table to Bostrom's simulation trilemma, the work traces how philosophers, scientists, and novelists alike have tested the boundaries of what counts as "real."Part I maps the idealist-realist battles; Part II examines the mind's constitutive role, consciousness, and the limits of physicalism; Part III interrogates simulations, virtuality, and hyperreality; and Parts IV-V confront anthropic reasoning, scepticism, solipsism, and Gödelian incompleteness.The conclusion? Reality is neither brute fact nor idle fiction but a hybrid, illuminated by the lantern of reason yet shadowed by doubt - and never safe from a final joke at Berkeley's expense.

• ISBN: 9798265365804
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.09.2025
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp