Thought Experiments against Materialism
Streaming video - 2017
Physicists and philosophers have relied on thought experiments for thousands of years. But how can we know that the conclusions of thought experiments are correct? Learn what Leibniz' "giant head" and Searle's "Chinese room" can tell us about materialism - and about the potential limits of our own imaginations.
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
The Great Courses
2017.
2018. - Language
- English
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- A Kanopy streaming video
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- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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- 00:30:24
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- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).