1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911020070603321

Autore

Jackson Frank <1943->

Titolo

Language, names, and information / / Frank Jackson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

9786613178039

9781444351576

1444351575

9781283178037

1283178036

9781444325362

1444325361

9781444325379

144432537X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.)

Collana

The Blackwell/Brown lectures in philosophy ; ; 3

Disciplina

121/.68

Soggetti

Discourse analysis

Psycholinguistics

Consciousness

Linguistics - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Language, Names, and Information; Contents; Prologue; Lecture One: The Debate Over the Theory of Reference for Proper Names; Lecture Two: Understanding, Representation, Information; Lecture Three: Ir-content and the Set of Worlds Where a Sentenceis True; Lecture Four: Two Spaceism; Lecture Five: The Informational Value of Names; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Language, Names, and Information is an important contribution to philosophy of language by one of its foremost scholars, challenging the pervasive view that the description theory of proper names is dead in the water, and defending a version of the description theory from a perspective on language that sees words as a wonderful source of information about the nature of the world we live in.Challenges current



pervasive view that the description theory of reference for proper names has been refutedDiscusses several topics at the center of current debates, including representat

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964525003321

Autore

Razavy Mohsen

Titolo

Heisenberg's Quantum Mechanics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore, : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2011

ISBN

9786613148391

9781283148399

1283148390

9789814304122

9814304123

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (678 p.)

Disciplina

530.12

Soggetti

Cosmic physics

Cosmology

Quantum theory

Physics

Physical Sciences & Mathematics

Atomic Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Contents; 1 A Brief Survey of Analytical Dynamics; 2 Discovery of Matrix Mechanics; 3 Mathematical Preliminaries; 4 Postulates of Quantum Theory; 5 Equations of Motion, Hamiltonian Operator and the Commutation Relations; 6 Symmetries and Conservation Laws; 7 Bound State Energies for One-Dimensional Problems; 8 Exactly Solvable Potentials, Supersymmetry and Shape Invariance; 9 The Two-Body Problem; 10 Methods of Integration of Heisenberg's Equations of Motion; 11 Perturbation Theory; 12 Other Methods of Approximation

13 Quantization of the Classical Equations of Motion with Higher



Derivatives14 Potential Scattering; 15 Quantum Diffraction; 16 Motion of a Charged Particle in Electromagnetic Field and Topological Quantum Effects for Neutral Particles; 17 Quantum Many-Body Problem; 18 Quantum Theory of Free Electromagnetic Field; 19 Interaction of Radiation with Matter; 20 Bell's Inequality; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a detailed account of quantum theory with a much greater emphasis on the Heisenberg equations of motion and the matrix method. No other texts have come close to discuss quantum theory in terms of depth of coverage. The book features a deeper treatment of the fundamental concepts such as the rules of constructing quantum mechanical operators and the classical-quantal correspondence; the exact and approximate methods based on the Heisenberg equations; the determinantal approach to the scattering theory and the LSZ reduction formalism where the latter method is used to obtain t