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Books

Nature’s Imagination

Roger Caldwell on science and truth.

This collection of papers is centred overtly on the question of reductionism. However, in its course, it touches importantly on a good many standard philosophical issues, such as the mind-body problem, the concept of self, freedom versus determinism, all seen from the vantage point of the latest developments in science. To those unacquainted with the larger works of Roger Penrose or John Barrow, or the importance of Gödel’s proof and of Turing machines, this is a suitable place from which to start. Indeed, for anyone with an interest in the interface between science and philosophy this is one of the richest brews on offer, all in little over 200 pages.

The symposium is unfashionable (or perhaps merely sensible) in one respect: none of the contributors – with the exception of W.

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