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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Butterfield, Jeremy (Editor), Earman, John (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/North-Holland, 2007.
Series:Handbook of the philosophy of science.
Subjects:
Physics > Philosophy.
Physique > Philosophie.
SCIENCE > Energy.
SCIENCE > Mechanics > General.
SCIENCE > Physics > General.
Physics > Philosophy
Natuurkunde.
Filosofie.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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