1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00179427

Autore

BRUNOT, A.

Titolo

Les corps des ponts et chaussèes / A. Brunot et R. Coquand

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : Éd. du CN RS, 1982 - XIX, 915 p., : ill ; 25 c

ISBN

22-220-2887-6

Altri autori (Persone)

COQUAND, R.

Soggetti

FRANCIA - TRASPORTI - Storia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Sul front.: Histoire de l'admistration fra nçaise

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484447603321

Autore

Johansson Lars-Goran

Titolo

Empiricism and Philosophy of Physics / / by Lars-Göran Johansson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

3-030-64953-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 291 p. 11 illus.)

Collana

Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, , 2542-8292 ; ; 434

Disciplina

146.44

Soggetti

Science - Philosophy

Knowledge, Theory of

Physics

Astronomy

Philosophy of Science

Epistemology

Physics and Astronomy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Part I. Background. 1. Problems in Philosophy of Physics -- 2. Some Important Episodes in the History of Physics -- Part II. General Philosophy of Science. 3. Empiricism from Ockham to van Fraassen -- 4. Mathematical Knowledge and Mathematical Objects -- 5. Induction and Concept Formation -- 6. Explanation, Unification and Reduction -- 7. Realism, Theory-Equivalence and Underdetermination of Theories -- Part III. Philosophy of Physics. 8 Causation in Physics -- 9. Space, Time and Body; Three Fundamental Concepts -- 10. Laws -- 11. Electromagnetism: Fields or Particles? -- 12. Propensities -- 13. Direction of Time -- 14. Identity, Individuation, Indistinguishability and Entanglement -- 15. Quantum Waves and Indeterminacy -- 16. The Measurement Problem -- 17. What is Spacetime? -- 18. Summary and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a thoroughly empiricist account of physics. By providing an overview of the development of empiricism from Ockham to van Fraassen the book lays the foundation for its own version of empiricism. Empiricism for the author consists of three ideas: nominalism, i.e. dismissing second order quantification as unnecessary, epistemological naturalism, and viewing classification of things in natural kinds as a human habit not in need for any justification. The book offers views on the realism-antirealism debate as well as on the individuation of theories as a thoroughly neglected aspect of underdetermination. The book next discusses a broad range of topics, including the predicates body, spatial distance and time interval, the ontology of electromagnetism, propensities, the measurement problem and other philosophical issues in quantum theory. Discussions about the direction of time and about string theory make up the final part of the book.