Chance in Physics [[electronic resource] ] : Foundations and Perspectives / / edited by J. Bricmont, D. Dürr, M.C. Galavotti, G. Ghirardi, F. Petruccione, Nino Zanghi |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2001.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XII, 292 p.) |
Disciplina | 530.15/92 |
Collana | Lecture Notes in Physics |
Soggetto topico |
Statistical physics
Dynamical systems Probabilities Quantum physics Philosophy Complex Systems Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes Quantum Physics Philosophy, general Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems |
ISBN | 3-540-44966-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Bayes, Boltzmann and Bohm: Probabilities in Physics -- Classical Statistical Mechanics -- The Rise of Statistical Mechanics -- Boltzmann’s Approach to Statistical Mechanics -- Microscopic Time Reversibility and the Boltzmann Equation -- The Direction of Time -- How to Implement Boltzmann’s Probabilistic Ideas in a Relativistic World? -- Quantum Mechanics -- Probability in Orthodox Quantum Mechanics: Probability as a Postulate Versus Probability as an Emergent Phenomenon -- Bohmian Mechanics -- Chance of Reduction as Chance of Spontaneous Localisation -- Probabilities, Decohering Histories, and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics -- Space Time and Probability -- Hidden Variables, Statistical Mechanics and the Early Universe -- Perspectives of the Dynamical Reduction Program -- Relativistic Theory of Continuous Measurements -- Probabilistic Results for Six Detectors in a Three-Particle GHZ Experiment -- Classical Versus Quantum Probabilities -- Chaotic Systems -- Does Quantum Chaos Exist? -- Time-Scales for the Approach to Thermal Equilibrium -- Einstein’s Nonconventional Conception of the Photon and the Modern Theory of Dynamical Systems -- Philosophy of Probability -- What Interpretation for Probability in Physics? -- Statistical Mechanics and the Propensity Interpretation of Probability -- Interpreting Probabilities: What’s Interference Got to Do with It?. |
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Chance in Physics [[electronic resource] ] : Foundations and Perspectives / / edited by J. Bricmont, D. Dürr, M.C. Galavotti, G. Ghirardi, F. Petruccione, Nino Zanghi |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2001.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XII, 292 p.) |
Disciplina | 530.15/92 |
Collana | Lecture Notes in Physics |
Soggetto topico |
Statistical physics
Dynamical systems Probabilities Quantum physics Philosophy Complex Systems Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes Quantum Physics Philosophy, general Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems |
ISBN | 3-540-44966-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Bayes, Boltzmann and Bohm: Probabilities in Physics -- Classical Statistical Mechanics -- The Rise of Statistical Mechanics -- Boltzmann’s Approach to Statistical Mechanics -- Microscopic Time Reversibility and the Boltzmann Equation -- The Direction of Time -- How to Implement Boltzmann’s Probabilistic Ideas in a Relativistic World? -- Quantum Mechanics -- Probability in Orthodox Quantum Mechanics: Probability as a Postulate Versus Probability as an Emergent Phenomenon -- Bohmian Mechanics -- Chance of Reduction as Chance of Spontaneous Localisation -- Probabilities, Decohering Histories, and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics -- Space Time and Probability -- Hidden Variables, Statistical Mechanics and the Early Universe -- Perspectives of the Dynamical Reduction Program -- Relativistic Theory of Continuous Measurements -- Probabilistic Results for Six Detectors in a Three-Particle GHZ Experiment -- Classical Versus Quantum Probabilities -- Chaotic Systems -- Does Quantum Chaos Exist? -- Time-Scales for the Approach to Thermal Equilibrium -- Einstein’s Nonconventional Conception of the Photon and the Modern Theory of Dynamical Systems -- Philosophy of Probability -- What Interpretation for Probability in Physics? -- Statistical Mechanics and the Propensity Interpretation of Probability -- Interpreting Probabilities: What’s Interference Got to Do with It?. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139804103321 |
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European philosophy of science [[electronic resource] ] : philosophy of science in Europe and the Viennese heritage / / Maria Carla Galavotti, Elisabeth Nemeth, Friedrich Stadler, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Springer, 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (0 p.) |
Disciplina | 100 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
GalavottiMaria Carla
NemethElisabeth StadlerFriedrich |
Collana |
Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook
Vienna Circle Institute yearbook |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy - Europe
Science - Philosophy - Austria - Vienna |
ISBN | 3-319-01899-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Editorial -- From the Vienna Circle to the Institute Vienna Circle: On the Viennese Legacy in Contemporary Philosophy of Science; Friedrich Stadler -- I -- A Matter of Substance? Gaston Bachelard on Chemistry’s Philosophical Lessons; Cristina Chimisso -- Carnap’s Aufbau and Physicalism: What Does the “Mutual Reducibility” of Psychological and Physical Objects Amount to?; Thomas Uebel -- On the Relationship between Neuroscience and Philosophy: the Case of Sleep and Dreaming; Claude Debru -- Metaphysics in the Thirties: And Why Should Anyone Care Now? Richard Creath -- II -- Probabilistic Epistemology: A European Tradition; Maria Carla Galavotti -- Reductionism today; Michael Esfeld -- Betting Interpretation and the Problem of Interference; Wlodek Rabinowicz and Lina Eriksson -- III.- Mathematics and Experience; Ladislav Kvasz -- Gödel and Carnap. Platonism versus Conventionalism?; Eckehart Köhler -- What is the Status of the Hardy-Weinberg Law within Population Genetics?; Pablo Lorenzano -- IV -- Kazimierz Twardowski and the Development of Philosophy of Science in Poland; Jan Woleński -- V -- Vienna Circle on Determinism; Tomasz Placek -- Infinite Idealizations; John D. Norton -- VI -- Political Polyphony. Otto Neurath and Politics Reconsidered; Günther Sandner -- Kelsen’s Legal Positivism and the Challenge of Nazi Law; Herlinde Pauer-Studer -- VII -- Biased Coins. A Model for Higherorder Probabilities; Jeanne Peijnenburg AND David Atkinson -- Is Logical Empiricism Compatible with Scientifi c Realism?; Matthias Neuber -- VIII -- Does the Unity of Science have a Future?; Jan Faye -- Is There a European Philosophy Science? A Wake-up call; Gereon Wolters -- General Part.-Report/Documentation -- Vienna Circle Historiographies; Veronika Hofer and Michael Stöltzner -- 18th Vienna Circle Lecture / 18. Wiener Kreis Vorlesung -- Husserl and Gödel on Mathematical Objects and our Access to them; Dagfinn Føllesdal, Review Essay -- Logical Empiricism in Historical Perspective. Recent Works on Moritz Schlick; Massimo Ferrari -- Reviews -- After Postmodernism. A Naturalistic Reconstruction of the Humanities, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012. (Thomas Uebel) -- Jan Faye -- The Tyranny of Science. Edited by Eric Oberheim. Cambridge: Polity Press 2011. (Daniel B. Kuby); Paul Feyerabend Il valore della verità. Milano: Guerini e Associati, 2011. (Beatrice Collina); Paolo Parrini -- Der Wiener Kreis in Ungarn / The Vienna Circle in Hungary. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts Wiener -- Kreis, Bd. 16. Wien: Springer 2011. (Radek Schuster); András Máté, Miklós Rédei and Friedrich Stadler (Eds.) -- Fritz Mauthner. Scepticisme linguistique et modernité. Une biographie intellectuelle. Éditions Bartillat: Paris 2012. Jacques Le Rider, Fritz Mauthner. Le langage. Translation of “Die Sprache” from German and foreword by Jacques Le Rider, Éditions Bartillat: Paris 2012. (Camilla Nielsen); Jacques Le Rider -- Activities of the Institute Vienna Circle -- Index of Names -- Abstracts. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910483468703321 |
New York, : Springer, 2014 | ||
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New Directions in the Philosophy of Science [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Maria Carla Galavotti, Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez, Stephan Hartmann, Thomas Uebel, Marcel Weber |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (754 p.) |
Disciplina | 501 |
Collana | The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy and science
Philosophy of Science |
ISBN | 3-319-04382-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface: Maria Carla Galavotti -- TEAM A: FORMAL METHODS -- Chapter 1: Things in Possible Experiments. Case-intensional Logic as a Framework for Tracing Things from Case to Case; Thomas Müller -- Chapter 2: The Proof Is in the Process. A Preamble for a Philosophy of Computer-assisted Mathematics; Liesbeth de Mol -- Chapter 3: The Future Role of Computation in Science and Society; Patrick Suppes -- Chapter 4: In No Categorical Terms: A Sketch for an Alternative Route to a Humean Interpretation of Laws; Kerry McKenzie -- Chapter 5: The Undeniable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Special Sciences; Mark Colyvan -- Chapter 6: Comment on “The Undeniable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Special Sciences”; Tim Räz -- TEAM B: PHILOSOPHY OF THE NATURAL AND LIFE SCIENCES -- Chapter 7: Explanatory Pluralism in Psychiatry: What Are We Pluralists about, and Why? Raffaella Campaner -- Chapter 8: Pluralists about Pluralism? Different Versions of Explanatory Pluralism in Psychiatry; Jeroen van Bouwel -- Chapter 9: Shifting Attention from Theory to Practice in Philosophy of Biology; C. Kenneth Waters -- Chapter 10: Living Instruments and Theoretical Terms: Xenografts as Measurements in Cancer Research; Pierre-Luc Germain -- Chapter 11: Developmental Explanation; Veli-Pekka Parkkinen -- Chapter 12: What Counts as Causation in Physics and Biology? Jan Faye -- Chapter 13: Challenges to Characterizing the Notion of Causation across Disciplinary Boundaries: Comment on Faye; Jan Baedke -- Chapter 14: Just Complexity; Max Urchs -- Chapter 15: Confessions of a Complexity Skeptic; Raphael Scholl -- Chapter 16: New Directions in the Philosophy of Biology: A New Taxonomy of Functions; Cristian Saborido -- TEAM C: PHILOSOPHY OF THE CULTURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Chapter 17: How Essentialism Properly Understood Might Reconcile Realism and Social Constructivism; Wolfgang Spohn -- Chapter 18: Social Construction – by Whom? Matti Sintonen -- Chapter 19: Is Social Constructivism Soluble in Critical Naturalism? Daniel Andler -- Chapter 20: Scientific Representation, Reflexivity, and the Possibility of Constructive Realism; Tarja Knuuttila -- Chapter 21: The Limits of Realism in the Philosophy of Social Science; David-Hillel Ruben -- Chapter 22: The Social Re-Construction of Agency; Katarzyna Paprzycka -- Chapter 23: Local Realism. An Analysis of Social Choice Theory; Obdulia Torres -- Chapter 24: Objectivity and Visual Practices in Science and Art; Chiara Ambrosio -- Chapter 25: Cultural Information: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell; Tim Lewens. TEAM D: PHILOSOPHY OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES -- Chapter 26: Introducing QBism; Christopher A. Fuchs -- Chapter 27: A Critic Looks at QBism; Guido Bacciagaluppi -- Chapter 28: Elementary Particles and Metaphysics; F.A. Muller -- Chapter 29: Assessing the Status of the Common Cause Principle; Miklós Rédei -- Chapter 30: A Note on Strong Causal Closedness and Completability of Classical Probability Spaces; Leszek Wroński and Michał Marczyk -- Chapter 31: Artificial Examples of Empirical Equivalence; Pablo Acuña -- Chapter 32: The Measurement Problem is Your Problem Too; Ronnie Hermens -- Chapter 33: Pros and Cons of Physics in Logics; Petr Švarný -- Chapter 34: How Fundamental Physics Represents Causality; Andreas Bartels and Daniel Wohlfarth -- Chapter 35: How Fundamental Physics Represents Causality. Comment; Mario Hubert and Roland Poellinger -- Chapter 36: Good Just Isn’t Good Enough - Humean Chances and Boltzmannian Statistical Physics; Claus Beisbart -- Chapter 37: Unsharp Humean Chances in Statistical Physics: A Reply to Beisbart; Radin Dardashti, Luke Glynn, Karim Thébault and Mathias Frisch -- Chapter 38: Noncommutative Causality in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory; Gábor Hofer-Szabó -- Chapter 39: Lost in Translation. A Comment on “Noncommutative Causality in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory”; Dustin Lazarovici -- Chapter 40: Causal Probabilities in GRW Quantum Mechanics; Tomasz Placek -- Chapter 41: Physics, Metaphysics and Mathematics; Dennis Dieks -- TEAM E: HISTORY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- Chapter 42: Where Would We Be without Counterfactuals? Huw Price -- Chapter 43: Pragmatism and European Philosophy: William James and the French-Italian Connection; Massimo Ferrari -- Chapter 44: European Pragmatism? Further Thoughts on the German and Austrian Reception of American Pragmatism; Thomas Uebel -- Chapter 45: New Prospects for Pragmatism: Ramsey’s Constructivism; Maria Carla Galavotti -- Chapter 46: Critical Realism in Perspective – Remarks on a Neglected Current in Neo-Kantian Epistemology; Matthias Neuber -- Chapter 47: Realism without Mirrors; Henrik Rydenfelt -- Chapter 48: The Continuing Relevance of 19th-Century Philosophy of Psychology: Brentano and the Autonomy of Psychological Methods; Uljana Feest -- Chapter 49: On the Logical Positivists’ Philosophy of Psychology: Laying a Legend to Rest; Sean Crawford -- Chapter 50: Epistemology Historicized: The French Tradition; Anastasios Brenner -- Chapter 51: Commentary on Brenner’s “Epistemology Historicised”; Cristina Chimisso -- Chapter 52: History and Philosophy of Science: Between Description and Construction; Friedrich Stadler. |
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