Download or read book Constructing the World written by David J. Chalmers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David J. Chalmers constructs a highly ambitious and original picture of the world, from a few basic elements. He returns to Rudolf Carnap's attempt to do the same, and adopts the idea of scrutability—according to which reasoning from a limited class of basic truths yields all truths about the world—to address central themes in philosophy.