This book investigates the metaphysical position of dual-aspect monism, with particular emphasis on the concept of meaning as a fundamental feature of the fabric of reality.

Introduction

Part 1: Monism and Meaning

1. Historical Background to Dual-Aspect Monism

2. Varieties of Meaning

Part 2: Three Approaches to Dual-Aspect Monism

3. Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Gustav Jung

4. Arthur Eddington and John Wheeler

5. David Bohm and Basil Hiley

Part 3: Discussion and Perspectives

6. Comparative Discussion

7. Ideas for Future Research

8. Outlook: After Physicalism

Harald Atmanspacher is an emeritus member of the Turing Center of ETH Zürich and a faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Mind and Matter and serves as the President of the Society for Mind-Matter Research. Selected publications include Recasting Reality: Wolfgang Pauli's Philosophical Ideas and Contemporary Science (with H. Primas, 2009), The Pauli-Jung Conjecture and Its Impact Today (with C.A. Fuchs, 2014), and his review of Quantum Approaches to Consciousness in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (last update 2020).

Dean Rickles is Professor of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he is also a director of the Sydney Centre for Time. He is the author of many books, including Covered with Deep Mist: The Development of Quantum Gravity (2020) and A Brief History of String Theory: From Dual Models to M-Theory (2016). He is co-editor, with Elaine Landry, of the Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Physics book series.