Constructing the World

by David J. Chalmers

Book Overview

David J. Chalmers constructs a highly ambitious and original picture of the world, from a few basic elements. He develops and extends Rudolf Carnap's attempt to do the same in Der Logische Aufbau Der Welt (1928). Carnap gave a blueprint for describing the entire world using a limited vocabulary, so that all truths about the world could be derived from that description--but his Aufbau is often seen as a noble failure. In Constructing the World, Chalmers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019960858X
• ISBN13: 9780199608584
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"