 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
LOGICAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS
|
| By: |
Robert S. Cohen (Editor), Marx W. Wartofsky (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
|
£99.99 |
|
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for
further information.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
9027703779 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789027703774 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER |
| Pub. date: |
31 December, 1973 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1974 |
| Series: |
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 13 |
| Pages: |
466 |
| Description: |
Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1969/1972 |
| Synopsis: |
In this volume of the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, we present a collection of articles on philosophical issues in contemporary physics. The principal domain of these investigations is quantum physics. There are also articles on questions in classical mechanics (Hooker), and relativity theory (papapetrou and Stachel), as well as a monographic essay in evolutionary epistemology (yilmaz), applying the conceptual and mathematical understanding of special relativistic quantum field theory to set forth a theory of the evolution and adaptation of perceptual structures. Finally, in addition, there are two essays on classical issues in the philosophy of nature - one, on types of continuity (Capek), which suggests an analogy between the perceptual and the quantum domains; the other, on causality, the first translation into English of a minor classic in the philosophical understanding of modern physics, H. Berg- man's well-known but little-read Der Kampf um das Kausalgesetz in der jiingsten Physik (Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1929). On the occasion of this publication, Professor Bergman has kindly contributed an introductory essay, 'Personal Remembrances of Albert Einstein'.Of the seven essays on quantum mechanics, four are on quantum logic (Marlow, Heelan, Bub and Demopoulos, Van Fraassen), the last being a critical survey of various current proposals for quantum logics; the re- maining three (MacKinnon, Stachel and Van Fraassen) are concerned with both the formal issues and the ontological commitments of quantum physics. |
| Illustrations: |
VI, 466 p. |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
Kluwer Academic Publishers |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr
A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|