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Invariances The Structure of the Objective World
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Invariances The Structure of the Objective World
Sinopsis
Recent scientific advances have placed many
traditional philosophical concepts under
great stress. In this pathbreaking book, the
eminent philosopher Robert Nozick rethinks and
transforms the concepts of truth, objectivity,
necessity, contingency, consciousness, and
ethics. Using an original method, he presents
bold new philosophical theories that take
account of scientific advances in physics,
evolutionary biology, economics, and cognitive
neuroscience, and casts current cultural
controversies (such as whether all truth is
relative and whether ethics is objective) in a
wholly new light. Throughout, the book is open
to, and engages in, the bold exploration of new
philosophical possibilities.Philosophy will never
look the same. Truth is embedded in space-time
and is relative to it. However, truth is not
socially relative among human beings
(extraterrestrials are another matter). Objective
facts are invariant under specified
transformations objective beliefs are arrived at
by a process in which biasing factors do not
play a significant role. Necessity's domain is
contracted (there are no important metaphysical
necessities water is not necessarily H2O) while
the important and useful notion of degrees of
contingency is elaborated. Gradations of
consciousness (based upon common registering)
yield increasing capacity to fit actions to the
world. The originating function of ethics is
cooperation to mutual benefit, and evolution has
instilled within humans a normative module the
capacities to learn, internalize, follow norms,
and make evaluations. Ethics has normative force
because of the connection between ethics and
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conscious self-awareness. Nozick brings together
the book's novel theories to show the extent to
which there are objective ethical truths.
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Recent scientific advances have placed many
traditional philosophical
concepts under great
stress. In this pathbreaking book, the eminent
philosopher Robert Nozick rethinks and
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transforms the concepts of truth, objectivity,
necessity, contingency, consciousness,
and ethics. Using an original method, he presents
bold new philosophical theories that take
account of scientific advances in physics,
evolutionary biology, economics, and cognitive
neuroscience, and casts current cultural
controversies (such as whether all truth is
relative and whether ethics is objective) in a
wholly new light. Throughout, the book is open
to, and engages in, the bold exploration of new
philosophical possibilities.Philosophy will never
look the same. Truth is embedded in space-time
and is relative to it. However, truth is not
socially relative among human beings
(extraterrestrials are another matter). Objective
facts are invariant under specified
transformations objective beliefs are arrived at
by a process in which biasing factors do not
play a significant role. Necessity's domain is
contracted (there are no important metaphysical
necessities water is not necessarily H2O) while
the important and useful notion of degrees of
contingency is elaborated. Gradations of
consciousness (based upon common registering)
yield increasing capacity to fit actions to the
world. The originating function of ethics is
cooperation to mutual benefit, and evolution has
instilled within humans a normative module the
capacities to learn, internalize, follow norms,
and make evaluations. Ethics has normative force
because of the connection between ethics and
conscious self-awareness. Nozick brings together
the book's novel theories to show the extent to
which there are objective ethical truths.