Interpreting Physics

By - MacKinnon, Edward M. (Edward Michael),

Floor - Floor 2

ISBN 10 - 9400723687

ISBN 13 - 9789400723689

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Quantum theory--Philosophy

Shelf No - 3

Call Number - 530.12 MAC

Physical Description - xiii, 268 pages: illustrations; 24 cm.

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This book is the first to offer a systematic account of the role of language in the development and interpretation of physics. An historical-conceptual analysis of the co-evolution of mathematical and physical concepts leads to the classical/quatum interface. Bohrian orthodoxy stresses the indispensability of classical concepts and the functional role of mathematics. This book analyses ways of extending, and then going beyond this orthodoxy orthodoxy. Finally, the book analyzes how a revised interpretation of physics impacts on basic philosophical issues: conceptual revolutions, realism, and reductionism.

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