Metaphysics in contemporary physics

by Bigaj, Tomasz Wüthrich, Christian

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Full title :Metaphysics in contemporary physics / edited by Tomasz Bigaj, Christian Wüthrich.

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Publication Date:©2016

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Publisher(s):Brill Rodopi
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

The Physical Object

Description:1 recurso en línea (485 páginas)

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ISBN:9789004309630, 9004309632, 9789004310827, 9004310827
oclc:on1030569256
Dewey Decimal:530.01

Metaphysics in Contemporary Physics; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Rethinking Outside the Toolbox: Reflecting Again on the Relationship between Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics.; Ontology: An Empirical Fundamentalist Approach.; Quantum Structure and Spacetime.; Things Ain't What They Used to Be. Physics Without Objects; Particles in a Quantum Ontology of Properties; Essentialism and Modern Physics; Symmetry and Qualitativity; Relational Time; General Covariance, Diffeomorphism Invariance, and Background Independence in 5 Dimensions.

A Metaphysics from String Dualities: Pluralism, Fundamentalism, ModalityIs Mereology Empirical? Composition for Fermions.; Physicalism and the Part-Whole Relation; Metaphysical Emergence: Weak and Strong; The Metaphysics of Laws: Dispositionalism vs. Primitivism; Classical and Quantum Sources of Randomness; Renormalization for Philosophers.

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First philosophy Metaphysics Métaphysique Philosophie et sciences Philosophy and science Physics -- Philosophy Physique -- Philosophie Quantum theory -- Philosophy Théorie quantique -- Philosophie