Intangible Materialism: The Body, Scientific Knowledge, and by Ronald Schleifer

By Ronald Schleifer

Ronald Schliefer indicates how discoveries in glossy physics have altered conceptions of subject and effort and the ways that either details conception and the learn of literature can improve those conceptions. increasing the reductive proposal of 'the fabric' as easily subject and effort, he formulates a brand new extra inclusive thought of materialism.

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