Arthur S. Eddington. The Nature of the Physical World: Gifford Lectures of 1927: An Annotated Edition. Annotated with an introduction by H. G. Callaway. xlix + 381 pp., illus., bibl., index. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. $86.85 [Book Review]

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The Nature of the Physical World is one of a series of semi-popular books, extremely popular and influential in the English-speaking world, that Arthur Eddington wrote between the 1920s and the 1950s. Not only were they masterful scientific expositions, but they included attempts to defend a definite philosophical position: dualism.

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