Metaphysics in contemporary physics / edited by Tomasz Bigaj, Christian Wüthrich.
Material type: TextSeries: Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities ; v. 104.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 485 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9789004309630
- 9004309632
- 530/.01 23
- B67 .M47 2016
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Books | Prof. Ram Dayal Munda Central Library General Stacks | Physics | 530/.01 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | 81145 |
Includes bibliographical references.
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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