Bertrand Russell

The Analysis of Matter

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Produktbeschreibung

2014 Reprint of 1927 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This works received much attention as a work of first importance not only for philosophers and physicists but for the general reader too. The first of its three parts supplies a statement and interpretation of the doctrine of relativity and of the quantum theory, done with Russell's habitual uncanny lucidity and humor, as is indeed the entire book. The book is candid and stimulating for both its subject and its treatment and was reviewed by the "Times Literary Supplement" as "one of the best books that Mr. Russell has given us."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Martino Fine Books
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9781614277217
• ISBN-10: 1614277214
• Artikelnr.: 41642679

Autorenporträt

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was a mathematician, philosopher, pacifist, and winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize for literature. As a president of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, he opposed war and nuclear weapons and also advocated world government and peacemaking. The Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation was created in 1963 and it publishes a journal, 'The Spokesman'.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Routledge Classics edition John G. Slater Preface 1.
The Nature of the Problem Part 1: The Logical Analysis of Physics 2.
Pre-Relativity Physics 3. Electrons and Protons 4. The Theory of Quanta 5.
The Special Theory of Relativity 6. The General Theory of Relativity 7. The
Method of Tensors 8. Geodesics 9. Invariants and Their Physical
Interpretation 10. Weyl's Theory 11. The Principle of Differential Laws 12.
Measurement 13. Matter and Space 14. The Abstractness of Physics Part 2:
Physics and Perception 15. From Primitive Perception to Common Sense
16. From Common Sense to Physics 17. What is an Empirical Science 18. Our
Knowledge of Particular Matters of Fact 19. Data, Inferences, Hypotheses,
and Theories 20. The Causal Theory of Perception 21. Perception and
Objectivity 22. The Belief in General Laws 23. Substance 24. Importance of
Structure in Scientific Inference 25. Perception From the Standpoint of
Physics 26. Non-Mental Analogues to Perception Part 3: The Structure of the
Physical World 27. Particulars and Events 28. The Construction of Points
29. Space-Time Order 30. Causal Lines 31. Extrinsic Causal Laws 32.
Physical and Perceptual Space-Time 33. Periodicity and Qualitative Series
34. Types of Physical Occurrences 35. Causality and Interval 36. The
Genesis of Space-Time 37. Physics and Neutral Monism 38. Summary and
Conclusion. Index