Empiricism and Philosophy of Physics | 1st edition

by Lars-Göran Johansson (red.)

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Publisher	Springer Nature
Language	English
Book type	Hardcover
Utgiven	2021-02-07
Edition	1
Pages	280
ISBN	9783030649524
Kategori(er)	Nature science & Tech ↳ Physics

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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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