Philosophical concepts in physics : the historical relation between philosophy and scientific theori...
Philosophical concepts in physics : the historical relation between philosophy and scientific theori...
Philosophical concepts in physics : the historical relation between philosophy and scientific theories / James T. Cushing.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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1998.
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T0392610
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xix, 424 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Pt. I. The scientific enterprise. 1. Ways of knowing. 2. Aristotle and Francis Bacon. 3. Science and metaphysics -- Pt. II. Ancient and modern models of the universe. 4. Observational astronomy and the Ptolemaic model. 5. The Copernican model and Kepler's laws. 6. Galileo on Motion -- Pt. III. The N...
19. The road to quantum mechanics. 20. Copenhagen quantum mechanics. 21. Is quantum mechanics complete? -- Pt. VIII. Some philosophical lessons from quantum mechanics. 22. The EPR paper and Bell's theorem. 23. An alternative version of quantum mechanics. 24. An essential role for historical continge...
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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England
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1998.
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Philosophical concepts in physics : the historical relation between philosophy and scientific theories / James T. Cushing.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 400-411) and indexes.
Transferred from N530.01/18.
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T0392610
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052157823X (pbk.)
9780521570718 (hardcover)
0521570719 (hardcover)
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530.01
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991005603299702626
