James T. Cushing, Cushing James T.

Theory Construction and Selection in Modern Physics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Analyses what criteria should determine how scientific theories are selected and justified.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 691g
• ISBN-13: 9780521017305
• ISBN-10: 0521017300
• Artikelnr.: 21101796

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction and background
2. Origin of the S-matrix: Heisenberg's program and a background to dispersion theory
3. Dispersion relations
4. Another route to a theory based on analytic reaction amplitudes
5. The analytic S-matrix
6. The bootstrap and Regge poles
7. An autonomous S-matrix program
8. The duality program
9. 'Data' for a methodological study
10. Methodological lessons
Appendix
Notes
References
Glossary of technical terms (from physics and from philosophy)
Some key figures and their positions
Index.