Emergence and reduction in physics
Phase transitions : a paradigm case -- Few-many reduction vs. few many emergence -- Universality, renormalization, and effective (-field) theories -- Intertheoretic reduction.
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY, Port Melbourne,VIC, New Delhi, Singapore
Cambridge University Press
2022
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| Schriftenreihe: | Cambridge elements Elements in the philosophy of physics
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Phase transitions : a paradigm case -- Few-many reduction vs. few many emergence -- Universality, renormalization, and effective (-field) theories -- Intertheoretic reduction. "This Element offers an overview of some of the most important debates in philosophy and physics around the topics of emergence and reduction and proposes a compatibilist view of emergence and reduction. In particular, it suggests that specific notions of emergence, which we call "few-many emergence" and "coarsegrained emergence", are compatible with "intertheoretic reduction". Some further issues that will be addressed concern the comparison between parts-whole emergence and few-many emergence, the emergence of effective (-field) theories, the use of infinite limits, the notion of intertheoretic reduction and the explanation of universal and cooperative behavior. Although the focus will be principally on classical phase transitions and other examples from condensed matter physics, the main aim is to draw some general conclusions on the topics of emergence and reduction that can help us understand a variety of case-studies ranging from high-energy physics to astrophysics"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 75-81 |
| Beschreibung: | 81 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781108814065 978-1-108-81406-5 |