Metaphysics in contemporary physics
Introduction / Tomasz Bigaj and Christian Wüthrich -- Rethinking outside the toolbox : reflecting again on the relationship between philosophy of science and metaphysics / Steven French and Kerry McKenzie -- Ontology : an empirical fundamentalist approach / Douglas Kutach -- Quantum structure and sp...
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Leiden, Boston
Brill Rodopi
2016
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| Schriftenreihe: | Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities
volume 104 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction / Tomasz Bigaj and Christian Wüthrich -- Rethinking outside the toolbox : reflecting again on the relationship between philosophy of science and metaphysics / Steven French and Kerry McKenzie -- Ontology : an empirical fundamentalist approach / Douglas Kutach -- Quantum structure and spacetime / Vincent Lam -- Things ain't what they used to be : physics without objects / Dean Rickles and Jessica Bloom -- Particles in a quantum ontology of properties / Olimpia Lombardi and Dennis Dieks -- Essentialism and modern physics / Tomasz Bigaj -- Symmetry and qualitativity / Thomas Møller-Nielsen -- Relational time / Matteo Morganti -- General covariance, diffeomorphism invariance, and background independence in 5 dimensions / Antonio Vassallo -- A metaphysics from string dualities : pluralism, fundamentalism, modality / Ioan Muntean -- Is mereology empirical? : composition for fermions / Adam Caulton -- Physicalism and the part-whole relation / Andreas Hüttemann -- Metaphysical emergence : weak and strong / Jessica Wilson -- The metaphysics of laws : dispositionalism vs. primitivism / Mauro Dorato and Michael Esfeld -- Classical and quantum sources of randomness / Marek Kuś -- Renormalization for philosophers / Jeremy Butterfield and Nazim Bouatta |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturangaben |
| Beschreibung: | 485 Seiten 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9789004309630 978-90-04-30963-0 |