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Bunge, M |
Problems in the Foundations of Physics |
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1971 |
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Bunge, M |
Quantum Theory and Reality |
I01683 |
1967 |
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| Title | Problems in the Foundations of Physics |
| Author(s) | Bunge, M |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1971. |
| Description | VIII, 186 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This is a collection of technical papers in the foundations and the philoso?? It takes both "foundations" phy of physics with emphasis on the former. and "philosophy" in their narrow technical senses but it construes "physics" lato sensu, as including all the sciences of nonliving systems. All eleven papers constituting this volume were written for it. The problems tackled in this book concern certain basic concepts, hypotheses, theories, and research programmes in physical science. Some of these problems are topical, others new, but they are all fundamental and the subject of research and controversy. Consequently this volume is expected to serve those students, teachers and researchers who enjoy learning, teaching, discussing or doing theoretical physics. It is addressed to the nine to niners rather than to the nine to fivers. It is expected to attract the theoretician in search for new basic ideas, the teacher eager to perfect his understanding of physical theory and transmit his own zeal and his own doubts, as well as the student anxious to get down to essentials. This book may also interest the mathematician for whom physics offers a challenge (or a good pretext). Finally, it should get the attention of the philosopher of science aware of the advantages of philosophizing on foundations research problems rather than on the popularization of some results of research. There are at least two reasons for valuing foundations research |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642806247 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. PHYSICS
4. Physics, general
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| Item Type | eBook |
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| Title | Quantum Theory and Reality |
| Author(s) | Bunge, M |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1967. |
| Description | VI, 120 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The Tum of the Tide During centuries physicists were supposed to be studying the physical world. Since the turn of the century this assumption has often been challenged as naive: it was proclaimed that physics is not about the external world but about observers and their manipUlations: that it is meaningless to talk of anything else than observation devices and opera?? tions: that the laws of physics concern our knowledge rather than the external world. This view of the nature of physical science has old roots in philo?? sophy but it was independently reinvented by a number of philosophi?? cally inclined physicists, notably ERNST MACH. These scientists were disgusted with the school philosophies and they were alarmed by the increasing number of physical concepts which they regarded as meta?? physical or beyond experimental control, such as those of absolute motion, ether, electromagnetic field, and molecule. Reasonably enough, they wished to keep physics testable. To accomplish this goal they adopted the safe method, namely to banish every idea that could not be closely tied to observation. In this way they certainly avoided the risks of untestable speculation but they also failed to enjoy the benefits of theoretical invention. Furthermore they instituted unawares a new meta?? physics that was to dominate the philosophy of physics for half a century: the metaphysics according to which the world is made of sense experience |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642880261 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. GRAVITATION
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