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 ti the classical/quatum interface. Bohrian orthodoxy s…
In the letters contained in this book, David Bohm argues that the dominant formal, mathematical approach in physics is seriously flawed. In the 1950s and 60s, Bohm took a direction unheard of for a professor of theoretical physics : while still researching in physics, working am…
Scientific realism and the quantum
Metaphysics has shifted ground, moving away from necessity and possibility as the lens through which we look at things. Ted Sider shapes the agenda for the subject by exploring how this shift transforms the project of understanding the objects, properties, and quantities of the …
Théorie quantique et sciences humaines
L'auteur, physicien, nous entraîne du temps de la physique à la philosophie du temps.
Doit-on construire l'ensemble des sciences, y compris celle de l'esprit, sur la physique, ou bien la physique est-elle un terrain mouvant qui appelle une philosophie de l'esprit pour répondre à certaines questions? L'auteur poursuit le débat et part de ce constat pour tenter de …
"The study of the physical world had its origins in philosophy, and, two-and-one-half millennia later, the scientific advances of the twentieth century are bringing the two fields closer together again. So argues Lawrence Sklar in this brilliant new text on the philosophy of phy…