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Philosophy of physics /
The ambition of this volume is twofold: to provide a comprehensive overview of the field and to serve as an indispensable reference work for anyone who wants to work in it. For example, any philosopher who hopes to make a contribution to the topic of the classical-quantum correspondence will have to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier/North-Holland,
2007.
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| Colección: | Handbook of the philosophy of science.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- General Preface (Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard and John Woods)
- Introduction (Jeremy Butterfield and John Earman)
- List of Contributors
- On Symplectic Reduction in Classical Mechanics (Jeremy Butterfield)
- The Representation of Time and Change in Mechanics (Gordon Belot)
- Classical Relativity Theory (David Malament)
- Non-Relativisitic Quantum Theory (Michael Dickson)
- Between Classical and Quantum (N.P. Landsman)
- Quantum Information and Computing (Jeffrey Bub)
- The Conceptual Basis of Quantum Field Theory (Gerard 't Hooft)
- Algebraic Quantum Field Theory (Hans Halvorson)
- Issues in the Foundations of Classical Statistical Physics (Jos Uffink)
- Quantum Statistical Physics (Gerard Emch)
- Issues in the Philosophy of Cosmology (George F.R. Ellis)
- Quantum Gravity (Carlo Rovelli)
- Symmetrics and Invariances in Classical Physics (Katherine Brading and Elena Castellani)
- Aspects of Determinism in Modern Physics (John Earman)
- Index.