Does Science have all the answers? Can it even deal with abstract reasoning which reaches Beyond the world experienced by us? How can we be so sure that the physical world is sufficiently ordered to be intelligible to humans? How is it that mathematics, a product of human minds, can unlock the secrets of the physical universe? Are all such questions to be ruled out as inadmissible if Science cannot settle them? Metaphysics has traditionally been understood as reasoning Beyond the reach of science, sometimes even claiming realities that are Beyond its grasp.
The author of many books on central philosophical topics.
He is a former president of the Mind Association, and was the founding president of the British Philosophical Association, representing all British philosophy.
Olaf College About the Author: Roger Trigg is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick, senior research fellow at the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford and a long-standing member of St Cross College, Oxford.
This is a brilliant book for new-comers to philosophy of Science and experts alike." --Charles Taliaferro, professor of philosophy, St. "In Beyond Matter, Roger Trigg advances a powerful, persuasive, fair-minded argument that the sciences require a philosophical, metaphysical foundation.
It takes reasoning apart from what can be experienced to discover what is not yet known, and this metaphysical reasoning to imagine realities Beyond what can be accessed.
In fact, Trigg claims that the foundations of Science themselves have to lie Beyond science.
Roger Trigg challenges those who deny that Science Needs philosophical assumptions.
Yet scientists at the frontiers of physics unwittingly engage in metaphysics, as they are now happy to contemplate whole universes that are, in principle, Beyond human reach.
Because of this, Metaphysics has often been contemptuously dismissed by scientists and philosophers who wish to remain within the bounds of what can be scientifically proven.
Does Science have all the answers? Can it even deal with abstract reasoning which reaches Beyond the world experienced by us? How can we be so sure that the physical world is sufficiently ordered to be intelligible to humans? How is it that mathematics, a product of human minds, can unlock the secrets of the physical universe? Are all such questions to be ruled out as inadmissible if Science cannot settle them? Metaphysics has traditionally been understood as reasoning Beyond the reach of science, sometimes even claiming realities that are Beyond its grasp
