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Blackmore, J.T |
Ernst Mach ??? A Deeper Look |
I03869 |
1992 |
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| 102 |
Cohen, Robert S |
Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance |
I03754 |
1997 |
eBook |
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| 103 |
Kattsoff, Louis Osgood |
Physical science and physical reality |
I03176 |
1957 |
eBook |
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| 104 |
Bitsakis, E.I |
The Concept of Probability |
I03098 |
1989 |
eBook |
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| 105 |
Kafatos, Menas |
Bell's Theorem, Quantum Theory and Conceptions of the Universe |
I02972 |
1989 |
eBook |
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| 106 |
Unguru, Sabetai |
Physics, Cosmology and Astronomy, 1300???1700: Tension and Accommodation |
I02495 |
1991 |
eBook |
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| 107 |
Raju, C.K |
Time: Towards a Consistent Theory |
I02494 |
1994 |
eBook |
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| 108 |
Hendry, J |
The Creation of Quantum Mechanics and the Bohr-Pauli Dialogue |
I01320 |
1984 |
eBook |
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| 109 |
Prokhovnik, R |
Light in Einstein???s Universe |
I01192 |
1985 |
eBook |
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| 110 |
Aichelburg, Peter C |
Albert Einstein |
I01052 |
1979 |
eBook |
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| Title | Ernst Mach ??? A Deeper Look : Documents and New Perspectives |
| Author(s) | Blackmore, J.T |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1992. |
| Description | XIX, 463 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Ernst Mach -- A Deeper Look has been written to reveal to English-speaking readers the recent revival of interest in Ernst Mach in Europe and Japan. The book is a storehouse of new information on Mach as a philosopher, historian, scientist and person, containing a number of biographical and philosophical manuscripts publihsed for the first time, along with correspondence and other matters published for the first time in English. The book also provides English translations of Mach's controversies with leading physicists and psychologists, such as Max Planck and Carl Stumpf, and offers basic evidence for resolving Mach's position on atomism and Einstein's theory of relativity. Mach's scientific, philosophical and personal influence in a number of countries -- Austria, Germany, Bohemia and Yugoslavia among them -- has been carefully explored and many aspects detailed for the first time. All of the articles are eminently readable, especially those written by Mach's sister. They are deeply researched, new interpretations abound, and the bibliography includes recent works by and about Mach from over a dozen countries. The book also contains many articles by or about Mach's contemporaries, including Ostwald, Dingler, Weichert and, especially, Einstein. Finally, and most intriguingly, the original ideas of Japanese scholars are presented, built on Mach's philosophy. These demonstrate how Mach's world view is currently contributing to the solution of contemporary philosophical problems |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401127714 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. HISTORY
4. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
5. History, general
6. Modern philosophy
7. Philosophy and science
8. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
9. PHYSICS
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| Title | Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance : Quantum Mechanical Studies for Abner Shimony, Volume Two |
| Author(s) | Cohen, Robert S;Horne, M;Stachel, J.J |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1997. |
| Description | XI, 276 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance is a book for theoretical physicists and philosophers of modern physics. It treats a puzzling and provocative aspect of recent quantum physics: the apparent interaction of certain physical events that cannot share any causal connection. These are said to be `entangled' in some way, but an explanation remains elusive. Abner Shimony - to whom the book is dedicated - and others suggest the need to revive the category of what may be seen as a metaphysical potentiality. Abner has described these events without actions to link them as `passion at a distance': not active, but passive. The discussions gathered here are written by a truly remarkable cast of scientists and philosophers and shed new light on the most profound puzzles of our times |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401727327 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Elementary particles (Physics)
4. Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
5. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
6. Natural language processing (Computer science)
7. Natural Language Processing (NLP)
8. Philosophy and science
9. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
10. PHYSICS
11. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
12. QUANTUM PHYSICS
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| Title | The Concept of Probability : Proceedings of the Delphi Conference, October 1987, Delphi, Greece |
| Author(s) | Bitsakis, E.I;Nicolaides, C.A |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1989. |
| Description | IX, 449 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This volume contains articles from invited speakers at a meeting which took place in Delphi, during the week of October 12-16, 1987. The theme of the meeting was ''The concept of probability" and was organized by the "Group of Interdisciplinary Research" (Physics Department, University of Athens) and the Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens. (The Group ofInterdisciplinary Research organized two previous Meetings, 1) on the Concept of physical reality (1982) and 2) on the question of determinism in Physics (1984??. This small gathering, which was attended by scientists, mathematicians and philosophers from more than 22 countries, took place on the occasion of the 100th year from the birthday of E.Schrodinger. As the father of wave-mechanics, Schrodinger thrushed us into an era of physics where knowledge of the lV-function is considered, for most situations, as the ultimate aim and the ultimate truth. Yet, he, as well as another towering figure of 20th century physics, A.Einstein, never really felt confortable with the interpretation of the meaning oflV and of the information that it contains. With Einstein playing the leading role a debate about concepts and interpretation started as soon as quantum mechanics was born. Central theme to this debate is the concept of probability, a concept which permeates-explicitly or implicitly-all science and even our decision making in everyday life. The articles cover a broad spectrum of thought and results -mathematical, physical, epistemological, experimental, specific, general,-many of them outside the accepted norm |
| ISBN,Price | 9789400911758 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Elementary particles (Physics)
4. Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
5. Philosophy and science
6. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
7. PROBABILITIES
8. Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
9. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
10. QUANTUM PHYSICS
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| Title | Bell's Theorem, Quantum Theory and Conceptions of the Universe |
| Author(s) | Kafatos, Menas |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1989. |
| Description | XII, 330 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Bell's Theorem and its associated implications for the nature of the physical world remain topics of great interest. For this reason many meetings have been recently held on the interpretation of quantum theory and the implications of Bell's Theorem. Generally these meetings have been held primarily for quantum physicists and philosophers of science who have been or are actively working on the topic. Nevertheless, other philosophers of science, mathematicians, engineers as well as members of the general public have increasingly taken interest in Bell's Theorem and its implications. The Fall Workshop held at George Mason University on October 21 and 22, 1988 and titled "Bell's Theorem, Quantum Theory and Conceptions of the Universe" was of a more general scope. Not only it attracted experts in the field, it also covered other topics such as the implications of quantum non-locality for the nature of consciousness, cosmology, the anthropic principle, etc. topics usually not covered in previous meetings of this kind. The meeting was attended by more than one hundred ten specialists and other interested people from all over the world. The purpose of the meeting was not to provide a definitive answer to the general questions raised by Bell's Theorem. It is likely that the debate will go on for quite a long time. Rather, it was meant to contribute to the important dialogue between different disciplines |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401708494 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. GRAVITATION
5. Philosophy and science
6. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
7. QUANTUM PHYSICS
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| Title | Physics, Cosmology and Astronomy, 1300???1700: Tension and Accommodation |
| Author(s) | Unguru, Sabetai |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1991. |
| Description | VIII, 327 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Habent sua Jata colloquia. The present volume has its ongms in a spring 1984 international workshop held, under the auspices of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, by The Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas of Tel-Aviv University in cooperation with The Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation. It contains twelve of the twenty papers presented at the workshop by the twenty-six participants. As Proceedings of conferences go, it is a good representative of the genre, sharing in the main characteristics of its ilk. It may even be one of the rare instances of a book of Proceed?? ings whose descriptive title applies equally well to the workshop's topic and to the interrelations between. the various papers it includes. Tension and Accommodation are the key words. Thus, while John Glucker's paper, 'Images of Plato in Late Antiqu?? ity,' raises, by means of the Platonic example, the problem of interpreta?? tion of ancient texts, suggesting the assignment of proper weight to the creator of the tradition and not only to his many later interpreters in assessing the proper relationship between originator and commentators, Abraham Wasserstein's 'Hunches that did not come off: Some Prob?? lems in Greek Science' illustrates the long-lived Whiggish tradition in the history of science and mathematics. As those familiar with my work will undoubtedly note, Wasserstein's position is far removed from my stance on ancient Greek mathematics |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401133425 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. HISTORY
6. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
7. History of Mathematical Sciences
8. MATHEMATICS
9. Observations, Astronomical
10. Philosophy and science
11. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
12. PHYSICS
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| Title | Time: Towards a Consistent Theory |
| Author(s) | Raju, C.K |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1994. |
| Description | XII, 260 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Is time, even locally, like the real line? Multiple structures of time, implicit in physics, create a consistency problem. A tilt in the arrow of time is suggested as the most conservative hypothesis which provides approximate consistency within physics and with topology of mundane time. Mathematically, the assumed constancy of the velocity of light (needed to measure time) implies functional differential equations of motion, that have both retarded and advanced deviating arguments with the hypothesis of a tilt. The novel features of such equations lead to a nontrivial structure of time and quantum-mechanical behaviour. The entire argument is embedded in a pedagogical exposition which amplifies, corrects, and questions the conventionally accepted approach. The exposition includes historical details and explains, for instance, why the entropy law is inadequate for time asymmetry, and why notions such as time asymmetry (hence causality) may be conceptually inadequate. The first three parts of the book are especially suited as supplementary reading material for undergraduate and graduate students and teachers of physics. The new ideas are addressed to researchers in physics and philosophy of science concerned with relativity and the interpretation of quantum mechanics |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401583763 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. GRAVITATION
5. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
6. Philosophy and science
7. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
8. QUANTUM PHYSICS
9. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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| Title | The Creation of Quantum Mechanics and the Bohr-Pauli Dialogue |
| Author(s) | Hendry, J |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1984. |
| Description | XII, 180 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Many books have been written on the history of quantum mechanics. So far as I am aware, however, this is the first to incorporate the results of the large amount of detailed scholarly research completed by professional historians of physics over the past fifteen years. It is also, I believe, the first since Max Jammer's pioneering study of fifteen years ago to attempt a genuine 'history' as opposed to a mere technical report or popular or semi-popular account. My aims in making this attempt have been to satisfy the needs of historians of science and, more especially, to promote a serious interest in the history of science among phYSicists and physics students. Since the creation of quantum mechanics was inevitably a technical process conducted through the medium of technical language it has been impossible to avoid the introduction of a large amount of such language. Some acquaintance with quantum mechanics, corresponding to that obtained through an undergraduate physics course, has accordingly been assumed. I have tried to ensure, however, that such an acquaintance should be sufficient as well as necessary, and even someone with only the most basic grounding in physics should be able with judicious skip?? ping, to get through the book. The technical details are essential to the dialogue, but the plot proceeds and can, I hope, be understood on a non?? technical level |
| ISBN,Price | 9789400962774 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. HISTORY
4. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
5. History, general
6. Philosophy and science
7. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
8. PHYSICS
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| Title | Light in Einstein???s Universe : The Role of Energy in Cosmology and Relativity |
| Author(s) | Prokhovnik, R |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1985. |
| Description | XIV, 222 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The tremendous progress in astronomical observations over the past sixty years has revealed a vast structured universe whose fundamental parti?? cles are galaxies, and clusters thereof. The interpretation of the new astronomical evidence owes much to Einstein's insights and deductions. All our knowledge of the world derives from the light, more generally the energy, which reaches us from near and far. Einstein recognised the vital role of energy as the solE~ basis of our information about the workings of nature; his Special Theory of Relativity showed how our understanding of space and time Is linked with measurements involving reflecting light signals. He further demonstrated that matter exists in two interchangeable forms - a mass form and an energy form - which interact closely at all levels. His General Theory of Relativity dealt with the nature of this interaction in the context of gravitational fields, and led to a view of the universe which was soon observationally confirmed. Einstein's methods and results form the theoretical basis of modern cosmology which has spawned many 'models' of the universe; how?? ever, they all deal with an Einstein-type universe and they all employ his geometric approach to describe it |
| ISBN,Price | 9789400954403 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. GRAVITATION
5. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
6. Philosophy and science
7. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
8. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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