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A series of lectures presents the philosophical outcome of recent advances in physics, explaining relativity, quantum theory, and thermodynamics and the conceptual shifts that prompted their adoption. It surveys core scientific ideas and challenging arguments, highlights how classical notions of substance and determinism are undermined, and considers the conceptual resources that replace them. In concluding chapters the scientific outlook is related to wider human concerns such as metaphysics and religion, offering a mathematically informed, cautiously idealist interpretation of physical law while stressing remaining uncertainties and the tentative character of philosophical extrapolation.

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Title: The nature of the physical world

Author: Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

Release date: February 15, 2024 [eBook #72963]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928

Credits: Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)

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THE NATURE OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD

BY

A. S. EDDINGTON

M.A., LL.D., D.SC., F.R.S.

Plumian Professor of Astronomy
in the
University of Cambridge

THE
GIFFORD LECTURES
1927

NEW YORK:
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND:
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

1929

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