"This monograph examines James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to electromagnetism to gain insight into the practice of science by focusing on scientific methodology as applied by scientists. First and foremost, this study is concerned with practices that are reflected in scientif…
Statistical mechanics is one of the crucial fundamental theories of physics, and in his new book Lawrence Sklar, one of the pre-eminent philosophers of physics, offers a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to that theory and to attempts to understand its foundational eleme…
Building from foundations of modern science and cosmic evolution, as well as psychological and philosophical perspectives of value and meaning, this book explores some of humanity's biggest questions:· Is the Universe "about something"?· What might be roles for life and intellig…
1 Fundamental assumptions -- 2 The state of a quantum system as a subsystem of a composite system -- 3 Relation between the state of a system as isolated and as open -- 4 Universality of the probability function -- 5 Appendix A -- 6 Appendix B -- 7 Appendix C -- 8 Appendix D. T…