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Empiricism and Philosophy of Physics

By Lars-Göran Johansson

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2021
ISBN
3030649539, 9783030649524, 9783030649531
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-64953-1
ISSN
0166-6991
LCC
Q174-175.3
Open Library ID
OL37318772M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1197392 bytes)
Series
Synthese Library, 434
Volume
434
Edition
1
Pages
293\0
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2025-04-04 08:18:18

Description

This book presents a thoroughly empiricist account of physics. By providing an overview of the development of empiricism from Ockham to van Fraassen the book lays the foundation for its own version of empiricism. Empiricism for the author consists of three ideas: nominalism, i.e. dismissing second order quantification as unnecessary, epistemological naturalism, and viewing classification of things in natural kinds as a human habit not in need for any justification. The book offers views on the realism-antirealism debate as well as on the individuation of theories as a thoroughly neglected aspect of underdetermination. The book next discusses a broad range of topics, including the predicates body, spatial distance and time interval , the ontology of electromagnetism, propensities, the measurement problem and other philosophical issues in quantum theory. Discussions about the direction of time and about string theory make up the final part of the book.

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