Constructing the World Chalmers David J. Australian National University
Constructing the World Chalmers David J. Australian National University David J. He develops and extends Rudolf Carnap's attempt to do the same in Der Logische Aufbau Der Welt (1928). Chalmers…
Specifikacia Constructing the World Chalmers David J. Australian National University
Constructing the World Chalmers David J. Australian National University
David J. He develops and extends Rudolf Carnap's attempt to do the same in Der Logische Aufbau Der Welt (1928). Chalmers constructs a highly ambitious and original picture of the world, from a few basic elements.
In Constructing the World, Chalmers argues that something like the Aufbau project can succeed. 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. With the right vocabulary and the right derivation relation, we can indeed construct the world.The focal point of Chalmers's project is scrutability: roughly, the thesis that ideal reasoning from a limited class of basic truths yields all truths about the world.
Chalmers first argues for the scrutability thesis and then considers
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