Physics avoidance: essays in conceptual strategy

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2017)
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Mark Wilson explores our strategies for understanding the world. We frequently cannot reason about nature in the straightforward manner we anticipate, but must use alternative thought processes that reach useful answers in opaque and roundabout ways ; and philosophy must find better descriptive tools to reflect this.

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Q175.W672 2017

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