Abstract
NEITHER the psychology nor the physics of this book is of the conventional type. In a previous book, “The Identity Theory” (1936), Mr. Blamey Stevens put forward views which are now presented in a simpler form. To begin with, he suggests that space and time have no objective reality, and are merely two different subjective or perceptual aspects of an identical thing, which may be called substance. On bases such as these, a complete perceptual theory of physics is built up, rejecting many of the accepted laws, but replacing them by others which, it is claimed, are in accordance with empirical facts.
The Psychology of Physics
Blarney
Stevens
By. Pp. xvi + 282. (Manchester: Sherratt and Hughes; New York: G. E. Stechert and Co., 1939.) 7s. 6d. net.
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Miscellany. Nature 144, 1081 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441081e0
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