R I G Hughes

The Theoretical Practices of Physics

Philosophical Essays

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Produktbeschreibung

R.I.G. Hughes presents a series of eight philosophical essays on the theoretical practices of physics. The first two essays examine these practices as they appear in physicists' treatises (e.g. Newton's Principia and Opticks) and journal articles (by Einstein, Bohm and Pines, Aharonov and Bohm). By treating these publications as texts, Hughes casts the philosopher of science in the role of critic. This premise guides the following 6 essays which deal with various concerns of philosophy of physics such as laws, disunities, models and representation, computer simulation, explanation, and the discourse of physics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780199546107
• ISBN-10: 019954610X
• Artikelnr.: 28951369

Autorenporträt

R. I. G. Hughes is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword
* 1: Criticism, Logical Empiricism, and the General Theory of
Relativity
* 2: Theoretical Practice: The Bohm-Pines Quartet
* 3: Laws of Physics, the Representational Account of Theories, and
Newton's Principia
* 4: Modelling, the Brownian Motion and the Disunities of Physics
* 5: Models and Representation
* 6: The Ising Model, Computer Simulation, and Universal Physics
* 7: Theoretical Explanation
* 8: The Discourse of Physics
* Bibliography