Mechanistic Explanations in Physics and Beyond / / edited by Brigitte Falkenburg, Gregor Schiemann |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (220 pages) |
Disciplina |
146.6
530.01 |
Collana | European Studies in Philosophy of Science |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics—Philosophy
Mechanics Mechanics, Applied Philosophy Computer science—Mathematics Philosophy of Mathematics Classical Mechanics Theoretical and Applied Mechanics History of Philosophy Mathematics of Computing |
ISBN | 3-030-10707-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part I: INTRODUCTION -- Introduction -- Part II: HISTORICAL APPROACHES -- Chpater 1: Stathis Psillos: Mechanisms, Then and Now -- Chapter 2: Brigitte Falkenburg: Mechanistic Explanations: History, Scope, and Limitations -- Chapter 3: Gregor Schiemann: Old and New Mechanistic Explanations -- Part III: GENERAL QUESTIONS -- Chapter 4: Michel Ghins: Mechanistic Explanation: An Extension and a Defence -- Chapter 5: Marco Buzzoni: Multilevel Reality and Mechanistic Explanations -- Chapter 6: Jan Faye: Causal Mechanism, Complexity, and the Environment -- Chapter 7: Paul Weingartner: Is Every Causal Explanation a Mechanistic Explanation? -- Chapter 8: Hans Lenk: About the New Mechanistical Turn of Causal Epistemology -- Part IV: MECHANISMS IN PHYSICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE -- Chapter 9: Dennis Dieks: Explanation and Mechanisms in Physics -- Chapter 10: Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu: Explanation, the Progress of Physical Theories, and Computer Simulations -- Chapter 11: Itala M. Loffredo D’Ottaviano: Autonomous Action in Complex Mechanical Systems: A Real Dilemma? -- Chapter 12: Vinzenco Fano: Computation and Reality. |
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Science transformed? : debating claims of an epochal break / / edited by Alfred Nordmann, Hans Radder, and Gregor Schiemann ; Mieke Boon [and fifteen others], contributors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 303.48/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Social aspects
Science - Philosophy Science - Technological innovations |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8229-7750-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Science after the end of science? An introduction to the "epochal break thesis" / Alfred Nordmann, Hans Radder, Gregor Schiemann -- The age of technoscience / Alfred Nordmann -- We are not witnesses to a new scientific revolution / Gregor Schiemann -- "Knowledge is power," or how to capture the relationship between science and technoscience / Martin Carrier -- Climbing the hill: seeing (and not seeing) epochal breaks from multiple vantage points / Cyrus C. M. Mody -- Breaking up with the epochal break: the case of engineering sciences / Mieke Boon, Tarja Knuuttila -- Science and its recent history: from an epochal break to novel, nonlocal patterns / Hans Radder -- Knowledge-making in transition: on the changing contexts of science and technology / Andrew Jamison -- Alliances between styles: a new model for the interaction between science and technology / Chunglin Kwa -- Experimenting with the concept of experiment: probing the epochal break / Astrid Schwarz, Wolfgang Krohn -- Intensification, not transformation: digital media's effects on scientific practice / Valerie Hanson -- Technologies of viewing: aspects of imaging in natural sciences / Angela Krewani -- Technoscience as popular culture: on pleasure, consumer technologies, and the economy of attention / Jutta Weber -- The good old days: medical research then and now / James Robert Brown -- Toward a new culture of prediction: computational modeling in the era of desktop computing / Ann Johnson, Johannes Lenhard -- Epilogue: the sticking points of the epochal break thesis / Hans Radder. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463620103321 |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2011 | ||
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Science transformed? : debating claims of an epochal break / / edited by Alfred Nordmann, Hans Radder, and Gregor Schiemann ; Mieke Boon [and fifteen others], contributors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 303.48/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Social aspects
Science - Philosophy Science - Technological innovations |
ISBN | 0-8229-7750-8 |
Classificazione | SCI075000PHI000000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Science after the end of science? An introduction to the "epochal break thesis" / Alfred Nordmann, Hans Radder, Gregor Schiemann -- The age of technoscience / Alfred Nordmann -- We are not witnesses to a new scientific revolution / Gregor Schiemann -- "Knowledge is power," or how to capture the relationship between science and technoscience / Martin Carrier -- Climbing the hill: seeing (and not seeing) epochal breaks from multiple vantage points / Cyrus C. M. Mody -- Breaking up with the epochal break: the case of engineering sciences / Mieke Boon, Tarja Knuuttila -- Science and its recent history: from an epochal break to novel, nonlocal patterns / Hans Radder -- Knowledge-making in transition: on the changing contexts of science and technology / Andrew Jamison -- Alliances between styles: a new model for the interaction between science and technology / Chunglin Kwa -- Experimenting with the concept of experiment: probing the epochal break / Astrid Schwarz, Wolfgang Krohn -- Intensification, not transformation: digital media's effects on scientific practice / Valerie Hanson -- Technologies of viewing: aspects of imaging in natural sciences / Angela Krewani -- Technoscience as popular culture: on pleasure, consumer technologies, and the economy of attention / Jutta Weber -- The good old days: medical research then and now / James Robert Brown -- Toward a new culture of prediction: computational modeling in the era of desktop computing / Ann Johnson, Johannes Lenhard -- Epilogue: the sticking points of the epochal break thesis / Hans Radder. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788458903321 |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Science transformed? : debating claims of an epochal break / / edited by Alfred Nordmann, Hans Radder, and Gregor Schiemann ; Mieke Boon [and fifteen others], contributors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 303.48/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Social aspects
Science - Philosophy Science - Technological innovations |
ISBN | 0-8229-7750-8 |
Classificazione | SCI075000PHI000000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Science after the end of science? An introduction to the "epochal break thesis" / Alfred Nordmann, Hans Radder, Gregor Schiemann -- The age of technoscience / Alfred Nordmann -- We are not witnesses to a new scientific revolution / Gregor Schiemann -- "Knowledge is power," or how to capture the relationship between science and technoscience / Martin Carrier -- Climbing the hill: seeing (and not seeing) epochal breaks from multiple vantage points / Cyrus C. M. Mody -- Breaking up with the epochal break: the case of engineering sciences / Mieke Boon, Tarja Knuuttila -- Science and its recent history: from an epochal break to novel, nonlocal patterns / Hans Radder -- Knowledge-making in transition: on the changing contexts of science and technology / Andrew Jamison -- Alliances between styles: a new model for the interaction between science and technology / Chunglin Kwa -- Experimenting with the concept of experiment: probing the epochal break / Astrid Schwarz, Wolfgang Krohn -- Intensification, not transformation: digital media's effects on scientific practice / Valerie Hanson -- Technologies of viewing: aspects of imaging in natural sciences / Angela Krewani -- Technoscience as popular culture: on pleasure, consumer technologies, and the economy of attention / Jutta Weber -- The good old days: medical research then and now / James Robert Brown -- Toward a new culture of prediction: computational modeling in the era of desktop computing / Ann Johnson, Johannes Lenhard -- Epilogue: the sticking points of the epochal break thesis / Hans Radder. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815228703321 |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2011 | ||
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The significance of the hypothetical in natural science [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
Disciplina | 500 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HeidelbergerMichael
SchiemannGregor |
Soggetto topico |
Reasoning
Hypothesis Science - Methodology |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-71449-X
9786612714498 3-11-021062-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Heidelberger, Michael / Schiemann, Gregor -- Hypothesis in Early Modern Science / McMullin, Ernan -- Experience and Hypotheses: Opinions within Locke's Realm / Specht, Rainer -- Hypotheses in 19th Century British Philosophy of Science: Herschel, Whewell, Mill / Snyder, Laura J. -- From Axioms to Conventions and Hypotheses: The Foundations of Mechanics and the Roots of Carl Neumann's "Principles of the Galilean-Newtonian Theory" / Pulte, Helmut -- Contingent Laws of Nature in Émile Boutroux / Heidelberger, Michael -- Pluralism and the Hypothetical in Heinrich Hertz's Philosophy of Science / Hüttemann, Andreas -- Hypotheses and Conventions in Poincaré / Heinzmann, Gerhard -- Hypothesis and Convention in Poincaré's Defense of Galilei Spacetime / Walter, Scott -- Vaihinger and Poincaré: An Original Pragmatism? / Bouriau, Christophe -- Werner Heisenberg's Position on a Hypothetical Conception of Science / Schiemann, Gregor -- "Instrumentalism" and "Realism" as Categories in the History of Astronomy: Duhem vs. Popper, Maimonides vs. Gersonides / Freudenthal, Gad -- Hypotheticity and Realism - Duhem, Popper and Scientific Realism / Bartels, Andreas -- The Hypothesis of Reality and the Reality of Hypotheses / Nordmann, Alfred -- Hypothetical Metaphysics of Nature / Esfeld, Michael -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455465403321 |
Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The significance of the hypothetical in natural science [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
Disciplina | 500 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HeidelbergerMichael
SchiemannGregor |
Soggetto topico |
Reasoning
Hypothesis Science - Methodology |
ISBN |
1-282-71449-X
9786612714498 3-11-021062-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Heidelberger, Michael / Schiemann, Gregor -- Hypothesis in Early Modern Science / McMullin, Ernan -- Experience and Hypotheses: Opinions within Locke's Realm / Specht, Rainer -- Hypotheses in 19th Century British Philosophy of Science: Herschel, Whewell, Mill / Snyder, Laura J. -- From Axioms to Conventions and Hypotheses: The Foundations of Mechanics and the Roots of Carl Neumann's "Principles of the Galilean-Newtonian Theory" / Pulte, Helmut -- Contingent Laws of Nature in Émile Boutroux / Heidelberger, Michael -- Pluralism and the Hypothetical in Heinrich Hertz's Philosophy of Science / Hüttemann, Andreas -- Hypotheses and Conventions in Poincaré / Heinzmann, Gerhard -- Hypothesis and Convention in Poincaré's Defense of Galilei Spacetime / Walter, Scott -- Vaihinger and Poincaré: An Original Pragmatism? / Bouriau, Christophe -- Werner Heisenberg's Position on a Hypothetical Conception of Science / Schiemann, Gregor -- "Instrumentalism" and "Realism" as Categories in the History of Astronomy: Duhem vs. Popper, Maimonides vs. Gersonides / Freudenthal, Gad -- Hypotheticity and Realism - Duhem, Popper and Scientific Realism / Bartels, Andreas -- The Hypothesis of Reality and the Reality of Hypotheses / Nordmann, Alfred -- Hypothetical Metaphysics of Nature / Esfeld, Michael -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780735803321 |
Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2009 | ||
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The significance of the hypothetical in natural science / / edited by Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
Disciplina | 500 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HeidelbergerMichael
SchiemannGregor |
Soggetto topico |
Reasoning
Hypothesis Science - Methodology |
ISBN |
1-282-71449-X
9786612714498 3-11-021062-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Heidelberger, Michael / Schiemann, Gregor -- Hypothesis in Early Modern Science / McMullin, Ernan -- Experience and Hypotheses: Opinions within Locke's Realm / Specht, Rainer -- Hypotheses in 19th Century British Philosophy of Science: Herschel, Whewell, Mill / Snyder, Laura J. -- From Axioms to Conventions and Hypotheses: The Foundations of Mechanics and the Roots of Carl Neumann's "Principles of the Galilean-Newtonian Theory" / Pulte, Helmut -- Contingent Laws of Nature in Émile Boutroux / Heidelberger, Michael -- Pluralism and the Hypothetical in Heinrich Hertz's Philosophy of Science / Hüttemann, Andreas -- Hypotheses and Conventions in Poincaré / Heinzmann, Gerhard -- Hypothesis and Convention in Poincaré's Defense of Galilei Spacetime / Walter, Scott -- Vaihinger and Poincaré: An Original Pragmatism? / Bouriau, Christophe -- Werner Heisenberg's Position on a Hypothetical Conception of Science / Schiemann, Gregor -- "Instrumentalism" and "Realism" as Categories in the History of Astronomy: Duhem vs. Popper, Maimonides vs. Gersonides / Freudenthal, Gad -- Hypotheticity and Realism - Duhem, Popper and Scientific Realism / Bartels, Andreas -- The Hypothesis of Reality and the Reality of Hypotheses / Nordmann, Alfred -- Hypothetical Metaphysics of Nature / Esfeld, Michael -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819840003321 |
Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2009 | ||
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Towards a Theory of Spacetime Theories / / edited by Dennis Lehmkuhl, Gregor Schiemann, Erhard Scholz |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (VIII, 335 p. 7 illus.) |
Disciplina | 530.11 |
Collana | Einstein Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
History Mathematical physics Differential geometry History of Mathematical Sciences Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Inertial Motion, Explanation, and the Foundations of Classical Spacetime Theories -- A Primer on Energy Conditions -- Background Independence, Diffeomorphism Invariance, and the Meaning of Coordinates -- Gauge Theory of Gravity and Spacetime -- Paving the Way for Transitions - A Case for Weyl Geometry -- A Model-theoretic Analysis of Spacetime Theories -- The Relativity and Equivalence Principles for Self-gravitating Systems -- The Physical Significance of Symmetries from the Perspective of Conservation Laws -- Raisers of the Lost Spacetime -- Does Time Exist in Quantum Gravity?. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910157787103321 |
New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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