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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Scientist as Philosopher
    sub title: Philosophical Consequences of Great Scientific Discoveries
  name:
    name part: Weinert, Friedel.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 344 p. online resource.
  abstract: How do major scientific discoveries reshape their originators’, and our own, sense of reality and concept of the physical world? The Scientist as Philosopher explores the interaction between physics and philosophy. Clearly written and well illustrated, the book first places the scientist-philosophers in the limelight as we learn how their great scientific discoveries forced them to reconsider the time-honored notions with which science had described the natural world. Then, the book explains that what we understand by nature and science have undergone fundamental conceptual changes as a result of the discoveries of electromagnetism, thermodynamics and atomic structure. Even more dramatically, the quantum theory and special theory of relativity questioned traditional assumptions about causation and the passage of time. The author concludes that the dance between science and philosophy is an evolutionary process, which will keep them forever entwined.
  table of contents: The Philosopher Scientist -- The Concept of Nature -- Physical Understanding -- The Scientist Philosopher -- The Block Universe -- Causation and Determinism -- Conclusion.
  note: by Friedel Weinert.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Physics, general
  subject:
    topic: Science, general
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, general
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science, general
  classification: QC1-75
  classification: 530
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783540270317
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b138529
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204185839.0
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