'Splendidly provocative ...enjoy it as a feast for the imagination.' John Gribbin, "Sunday Times". Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way round?The universe began with the Big Bang - will it end with a 'Big Crunch'? This exciting book [...]
Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this volume Huw Price presents his distinctive version of this traditional combination, as delivered in his[...]
Presents Price's distinctive version of the traditional representationalism/naturalism combination, with commentary by four other major figures.[...]
In philosophy as in ordinary life, cause and effect are twin pillars on which much of our thought seems based. But almost a century ago, Bertrand Russell declared that modern physics leaves these pillars without foundations. Russell's revolutionary conclusion was that 'the law of causality is a reli[...]