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Metaphysics in contemporary physics / edited by Tomasz Bigaj, Christian Wüthrich.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: 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
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789004309630
  • 9004309632
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification:
  • 530/.01 23
LOC classification:
  • B67 .M47 2016
Contents:
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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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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