Author: S. MehlbergPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400989881
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory
Author: S. MehlbergPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400989881
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory
Author: Henry MehlbergPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9789027707215
Category : Causality (Physics)
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory: Time in a quantized universe
Author: Henry MehlbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Causality (Physics).
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory
Author: S MehlbergPublisher:
ISBN: 9789400989894
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory
Author: S. MehlbergPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789027710765
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution
Author: Walter Roy LairdPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402059671
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, between different traditions, or between textual traditions and the wider world of practice. Its purpose is to show how the accommodations sometimes made in the course of these conflicts ultimately contributed to the emergence of modern mechanics.
The Concept of Scientific Law in the Philosophy of Science and Epistemology
Author: Igor HanzelPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401732655
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The author argues that a reconstruction of scientific laws should give an account of laws relating phenomena to underlying mechanisms generating them, as well as of laws relating this mechanism to its inherent capacities. While contemporary philosophy of science deals only with the former, the author provides the concept for the reconstruction of scientific laws, where the knowledge of the phenomena enables one to grasp the quantity of their cause. He then provides the concepts for scientific laws dealing with the relation of the quantity and quality of the cause underlying phenomena to the quality and quantity of its capacities. Finally, he provides concepts for scientific laws expressing how a certain cause, due to the quantity and quality of its capacities, generates the quantitative and qualitative determinations of its manifestations. The book is intended for philosophers of science and philosophers of social science, as well as for natural and social scientists.
Interactions
Author: Vincent F. HendricksPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402051956
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
The main theme of this anthology is the unique interaction between mathematics, physics and philosophy during the beginning of the 20th century. In this book, ten renowned philosopher-historians probe insightfully into key conceptual questions of pre-quantum mathematical physics. The result is a diverse yet thematically focused compilation of first class papers on mathematics, physics and philosophy, and a source-book on the interaction between them.
Bridging the Gap: Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics
Author: G. CorsiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401124965
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Foundational questions in logic, mathematics, computer science and physics are constant sources of epistemological debate in contemporary philosophy. To what extent is the transfinite part of mathematics completely trustworthy? Why is there a general `malaise' concerning the logical approach to the foundations of mathematics? What is the role of symmetry in physics? Is it possible to build a coherent worldview compatible with a macroobjectivistic position and based on the quantum picture of the world? What account can be given of opinion change in the light of new evidence? These are some of the questions discussed in this volume, which collects 14 lectures on the foundation of science given at the School of Philosophy of Science, Trieste, October 1989. The volume will be of particular interest to any student or scholar engaged in interdisciplinary research into the foundations of science in the context of contemporary debates.
Incommensurability and Related Matters
Author: Paul Hoyningen-HuenePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401596808
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Incommensurability and Related Matters draws together some of the most distinguished contributors to the critical literature on the problem of the incommensurability of scientific theories. It addresses all the various problems raised by the problem of incommensurability, such as meaning change, reference of theoretical terms, scientific realism and anti-realism, rationality of theory choice, cognitive aspects of conceptual change, as well as exploring the broader implications of incommensurability for cultural difference. While it offers new work, and new directions of discussion, on the topic of incommensurability, the book also recapitulates the history of the discussion of the topic that has taken place within the literature on incommensurability.