物理学の理論と哲学 The Theoretical Practices of Physics : Philosophical Essays

Hughes, R. I. G.

Oxford University Press（2012/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 290 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199654369
• DDC分類 530.01

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2010. This book explores the theoretical practices that scientists use in doing physics.

Full Description

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 six essays which deal with various concerns of philosophy and physics such as laws, disunities, models and representation, computer simulation, explanation, and the discourse of physics.

Contents

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