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This book is a collection of essays whose topics center around relations between analytic metaphysics and modern physical theories. The contributions to the volume cover a broad spectrum of issues, ranging from metaphysical implications of selected physical theories (quantum mechanics, quantum field...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bigaj, Tomasz (Editor ), Wüthrich, Christian (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill Rodopi, [2016]
Colección:Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities ; v. 104.
Temas:
Metaphysics.
Physics > Philosophy.
Quantum theory > Philosophy.
Philosophy and science.
First philosophy.
Métaphysique.
Physique > Philosophie.
Théorie quantique > Philosophie.
Philosophie et sciences.
metaphysics.
SCIENCE > Energy.
SCIENCE > Mechanics > General.
SCIENCE > Physics > General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Metaphysics in Contemporary Physics; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Rethinking Outside the Toolbox: Reflecting Again on the Relationship between Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics.; Ontology: An Empirical Fundamentalist Approach.; Quantum Structure and Spacetime.; Things Ain't What They Used to Be. Physics Without Objects; Particles in a Quantum Ontology of Properties; Essentialism and Modern Physics; Symmetry and Qualitativity; Relational Time; General Covariance, Diffeomorphism Invariance, and Background Independence in 5 Dimensions.
  • A Metaphysics from String Dualities: Pluralism, Fundamentalism, ModalityIs Mereology Empirical? Composition for Fermions.; Physicalism and the Part-Whole Relation; Metaphysical Emergence: Weak and Strong; The Metaphysics of Laws: Dispositionalism vs. Primitivism; Classical and Quantum Sources of Randomness; Renormalization for Philosophers.

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