The Philosophy of Cosmology

Herausgeber: Barrow, John D.; Silk, Joseph; Chamcham, Khalil

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses foundational questions raised by observational and theoretical progress in modern cosmology for a broad academic audience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1082g
• ISBN-13: 9781107145399
• ISBN-10: 1107145392
• Artikelnr.: 48107907

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Issues in the Philosophy of Cosmology: 1. The domain of cosmology
and the testing of cosmological theories George F. R. Ellis; 2. Black
holes, cosmology and the passage of time: three problems at the limits of
science Bernard Carr; 3. Moving boundaries? - comments on the relationship
between philosophy and cosmology Claus Beisbart; 4. On the question why
there exists something rather than nothing Roderich Tumulka; Part II.
Structures in the Universe and the Structure of Modern Cosmology: 5. Some
generalities about generality John D. Barrow; 6. Emergent structures of
effective field theories Jean-Philippe Uzan; 7. Cosmological structure
formation Joel R. Primack; 8. Formation of galaxies Joseph Silk; Part III.
Foundations of Cosmology: Gravity and the Quantum: 9. The observer strikes
back James Hartle and Thomas Hertog; 10. Testing inflation Chris Smeenk;
11. Why Boltzmann brains do not fluctuate into existence from the de Sitter
vacuum Kimberly K. Boddy, Sean M. Carroll and Jason Pollack; 12.
Holographic inflation revised Tom Banks; 13. Progress and gravity:
overcoming divisions between general relativity and particle physics and
between physics and HPS J. Brian Pitts; Part IV. Quantum Foundations and
Quantum Gravity: 14. Is time's arrow perspectival? Carlo Rovelli; 15.
Relational quantum cosmology Francesca Vidotto; 16. Cosmological ontology
and epistemology Don N. Page; 17. Quantum origin of cosmological structure
and dynamical reduction theories Daniel Sudarsky; 18. Towards a novel
approach to semi-classical gravity Ward Struyve; Part V. Methodological and
Philosophical Issues: 19. Limits of time in cosmology Svend E. Rugh and
Henrik Zinkernagel; 20. Self-locating priors and cosmological measures Cian
Dorr and Frank Arntzenius; 21. On probability and cosmology: inference
beyond data? Martin Sahlén; 22. Testing the multiverse: Bayes, fine-tuning
and typicality Luke A. Barnes; 23. A new perspective on Einstein's
philosophy of cosmology Cormac O'Raifeartaigh; 24. The nature of the past
hypothesis David Wallace; 25. Big and small David Albert.