Deciphering Reality

Simulations, Tests, and Designs

Benjamin B. Olshin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2017
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-35259-9 (ISBN)

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In Deciphering Reality: Simulations, Tests, and Designs, Benjamin B. Olshin offers a series of essays that examine the detection of computer simulations, challenge visual models of reality, explore Daoist conceptions of reality, and present possible future directions for deciphering reality.

In Deciphering Reality: Simulations, Tests, and Designs, Benjamin B. Olshin takes a problem-based approach to the question of the nature of reality. In a series of essays, the book examines the detection of computer simulations from the inside, wrestles with the problem of visual models of reality, explores Daoist conceptions of reality, and offers possible future directions for deciphering reality.

The ultimate goal of the book is to provide a more accessible approach, unlike highly complex philosophical works on metaphysics, which are inaccessible to non-academic readers, and overly abstract (and at times, highly speculative) popular works that offer a mélange of physics, philosophy, and consciousness.

Benjamin B. Olshin, Ph.D., is a Professor of Philosophy, the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, and Design at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He has written in a broad range of areas, including the history of cartography, the sociology of technology, and design.

Acknowledgements
List of Figures

Introduction: Reality as a Problem

1 Reality as a Simulation

2 Reality to the Test

3 Reality by Design

4 Reality for the Daoists

5 Reality in Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.02.2018
Reihe/Serie	Cognitive Science ; 307
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-10	90-04-35259-7 / 9004352597
ISBN-13	978-90-04-35259-9 / 9789004352599
Zustand	Neuware