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  title info:
    title: Interpreting Physics
    sub title: Language and the Classical/Quantum Divide
  name:
    name part: MacKinnon, Edward.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 270 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book is the first to offer a systematic account of the role of language in the development and interpretation of physics. An historical-conceptual analysis of the co-evolution of mathematical and physical concepts leads ti the classical/quatum interface. Bohrian orthodoxy stresses the indispensability of classical concepts and the functional role of mathematics. We analyze ways of extending and then going beyond this orthodoxy orthodoxy. Finally, the book analyzes how a revised interpretation of physics impacts on basic philosophical issues: conceptual revolutions, realism, and reductionism.
  table of contents: Preface -- 1. A Philosphical Overview -- 2. From Categories to Quantative Concepts,- 3. The Unification of Classical Physics -- 4. Classical Physics -- 5. Orthodox Quantum Mechanics -- 6. Beyond a Minimal Basis -- 7. Interpreting Physics.
  note: by Edward MacKinnon.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  subject:
    topic: Physics, general
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  classification: B67
  classification: 501
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 289
  identifier: 9789400723696
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2369-6
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    record creation date: 111122
    record change date: 20151110071426.0
    record identifier: 978-94-007-2369-6