This Handbook provides an overview of many of the topics that currently engage philosophers of physics. It surveys new issues and the problems that have become a focus of attention in recent years. It also provides up-to-date discussions of the still very important problems that dominated the field in the past.
This Handbook provides an overview of many of the topics that currently engage philosophers of physics. It surveys new issues and the problems that have become a focus of attention in recent years. It also provides up-to-date discussions of the still very important problems that dominated the field in the past.
Robert Batterman is Professor of Philosophy at The University of Pittsburgh. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of The Devil in the Details: Asymptotic Reasoning in Explanation, Reduction, and Emergence (Oxford, 2002). His work in philosophy of physics focuses primarily upon the area of condensed matter broadly construed.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * 1. Olivier Darrigol, ``For a Philosophy of Hydrodynamics'' * 2. Mark Wilson, ``What is Classical mechanics anyway?'' * 3. Sheldon Smith, Causation in Classical Mechanics * 4. Leo P. Kadanoff, Theories of matter: Infinities and Renormalization * 5. Craig Callender and Tarun Menon, Turn and Face the Strange . . . Ch-ch-changes: Philosophical questions raised by phase transitions * 6. Jonathan Bain, Effective Field Theories * 7. Robert Batterman, The Tyranny of Scales * 8. Sorin Bangu, Symmetry * 9. Gordon Belot, Symmetry and Equivalence * 10. Simon Saunders, Indistinguishability * 11. Margaret Morrison, Unification in Physics * 12. Guido Bacciagaluppi, Measurement and Classical Regime in Quantum Mechanics * 13. David Wallace, The Everett Interpretation * 14. Laura Ruetsche, Unitary Equivalence and Physical Equivalence * 15. Oliver Pooley, Substantivalist and Relationalist Approaches to Spacetime * 16. Jon Byron Manchak, Global Spacetime Structure * 17. Chris Smeenk, Philosophy of Cosmology
* Introduction * 1. Olivier Darrigol, ``For a Philosophy of Hydrodynamics'' * 2. Mark Wilson, ``What is Classical mechanics anyway?'' * 3. Sheldon Smith, Causation in Classical Mechanics * 4. Leo P. Kadanoff, Theories of matter: Infinities and Renormalization * 5. Craig Callender and Tarun Menon, Turn and Face the Strange . . . Ch-ch-changes: Philosophical questions raised by phase transitions * 6. Jonathan Bain, Effective Field Theories * 7. Robert Batterman, The Tyranny of Scales * 8. Sorin Bangu, Symmetry * 9. Gordon Belot, Symmetry and Equivalence * 10. Simon Saunders, Indistinguishability * 11. Margaret Morrison, Unification in Physics * 12. Guido Bacciagaluppi, Measurement and Classical Regime in Quantum Mechanics * 13. David Wallace, The Everett Interpretation * 14. Laura Ruetsche, Unitary Equivalence and Physical Equivalence * 15. Oliver Pooley, Substantivalist and Relationalist Approaches to Spacetime * 16. Jon Byron Manchak, Global Spacetime Structure * 17. Chris Smeenk, Philosophy of Cosmology
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