Screen LibraryOn theories : logical empiricism and the methodology of modern physics /
"The final work of the esteemed philosopher William Demopoulos supplants logical empiricism's accounts of physical theories, which fail to satisfactorily engage modern physics. Arguing for a new appreciation of the tightly woven character of theory and evidence, Demopoulos offers novel ins...
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Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"The final work of the esteemed philosopher William Demopoulos supplants logical empiricism's accounts of physical theories, which fail to satisfactorily engage modern physics. Arguing for a new appreciation of the tightly woven character of theory and evidence, Demopoulos offers novel insights into the distinctive nature of quantum reality"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxiv, 247 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-234) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780674237575 0674237579 |
| Index Number: | B816 |
| CLC: |
O4-02 B089 |
| Call Number: | B089/D385 |
| Contents: | 1. Logical empiricist and related reconstructions of theoretical knowledge. The partial interpretation account of theories -- Carnap on Ramsey sentences and the explicit definition of theoretical terms -- A proposal of David Lewis and two theorems of John Winnie -- Putnam's model-theoretic argument -- Ramsey on Russell's analysis of matter and the partial interpretation of theories -- Constructive empiricism and partial interpretation -- 2. Molecular reality. The molecular hypothesis -- Molecular reality and Brownian motion -- The nature and status of Perrin's "connecting link" -- Perrin's argument for molecular reality -- Thomson and the constitution of cathode rays -- 3. Poincare? on the theories of modern physics. Poincare? on "true relations" -- Robustness versus consilience -- Poincare? and scientific realism -- Russell and Poincare? -- 4. Quantum reality. Bohr on the primacy of classical concepts -- Complementarity, completeness, and Einstein's "local realism" -- Bell's theorem and Einstein's local realism -- Quantum mechanics and reality. |