The Theoretical Practices of Physics: Philosophical EssaysOxford University Press, 2010 - Всего страниц: 278 R.I.G Hughes presents a series of eight philosophical essays on the theoretical practices of physics. The first two essays examine these practices as they appear in physicists' treatises (e.g. Newton's Principia and Opticks) and journal articles (by Einstein, Bohm and Pines, Aharonov and Bohm). By treating these publications as texts, Hughes casts the philosopher of science in the role of critic. This premise guides the following 6 essays which deal with various concerns of philosophy and physics such as laws, disunities, models and representation, computer simulation, explanation, and the discourse of physics. |
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1 Criticism Logical Empiricism and the General Theory of Relativity | 1 |
The BohmPines Quartet | 27 |
3 Laws of Physics the Representational Account of Theories and Newtons Principia | 93 |
4 Modelling the Brownian Motion and the Disunities of Physics | 126 |
5 Models and Representation | 150 |
6 The Ising Model Computer Simulation and Universal Physics | 164 |
7 Theoretical Explanation | 210 |
8 The Discourse of Physics Exemplified by the AharonovBohm Effect | 234 |
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