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Philosophy of physics : a new introduction / Robert P. Crease.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: IOP (Series). Release 23. | IOP ebooks. 2023 collection.Publisher: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2023]Description: 1 online resource (various pagings) : color illustrationContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • electronic
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780750326360
  • 9780750326353
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleLOC classification:
  • QC6 .C747 2023eb
Online resources:
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in print.
Contents:
1. The scientific workshop -- 1.1. Workshop frames -- 1.2. Workshop mediations -- 1.3. Workshop permeability
2. Three philosophical approaches -- 2.1. Frame contents (OPA) -- 2.2. Frame changes (IPA) -- 2.3. Framing (PPA)
3. Method -- 3.1. Frame contents (OPA) -- 3.2. Frame changes (IPA) -- 3.3. Framing (PPA)
4. Discovery -- 4.1. Frame contents (OPA) -- 4.2. Frame changes (IPA) -- 4.3. Framing (PPA)
5. Experiment -- 5.1. Frame contents (OPA) -- 5.2. Frame changes (IPA) -- 5.3. Framing (PPA)
6. Theory and theoretical objects -- 6.1. Frame contents (OPA) -- 6.2. Frame changes (IPA) -- 6.3. Framing (PPA)
7. Quantum mechanics -- 7.1. Frame contents (OPA) -- 7.2. Frame changes (IPA) -- 7.3. Framing (PPA) -- 8. Magnificent structures and their foundations.
Abstract: This book is about the ways that philosophers inquire into science. They do so with several different approaches, which this book parses into three. One analyzes the results of inquiry, another the process of inquiry, and still another inquiring, or what it means to be an inquirer. Each approach puts a different feature of science centre-stage--its logic, practice, and being-inquiring--questions it in different vocabularies for different ends, and ends up with different kinds of conclusions. This book outlines these approaches in a non-technical way, and highlights their differences by showing how they engage specific topics and issues in physics, including method, discovery, and theory. The key audiences for this book include the wider physics community, as well as philosophy and physics students.
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1. The scientific workshop -- 1.1. Workshop frames -- 1.2. Workshop mediations -- 1.3. Workshop permeability

2. Three philosophical approaches -- 2.1. Frame contents (OPA) -- 2.2. Frame changes (IPA) -- 2.3. Framing (PPA)

3. Method -- 3.1. Frame contents (OPA) -- 3.2. Frame changes (IPA) -- 3.3. Framing (PPA)

4. Discovery -- 4.1. Frame contents (OPA) -- 4.2. Frame changes (IPA) -- 4.3. Framing (PPA)

5. Experiment -- 5.1. Frame contents (OPA) -- 5.2. Frame changes (IPA) -- 5.3. Framing (PPA)

6. Theory and theoretical objects -- 6.1. Frame contents (OPA) -- 6.2. Frame changes (IPA) -- 6.3. Framing (PPA)

7. Quantum mechanics -- 7.1. Frame contents (OPA) -- 7.2. Frame changes (IPA) -- 7.3. Framing (PPA) -- 8. Magnificent structures and their foundations.

This book is about the ways that philosophers inquire into science. They do so with several different approaches, which this book parses into three. One analyzes the results of inquiry, another the process of inquiry, and still another inquiring, or what it means to be an inquirer. Each approach puts a different feature of science centre-stage--its logic, practice, and being-inquiring--questions it in different vocabularies for different ends, and ends up with different kinds of conclusions. This book outlines these approaches in a non-technical way, and highlights their differences by showing how they engage specific topics and issues in physics, including method, discovery, and theory. The key audiences for this book include the wider physics community, as well as philosophy and physics students.

Physics community.

Also available in print.

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Robert P. Crease is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University in New York. He has written, edited, or translated over 12 books in the history and philosophy of science, and for nearly 20 years has been a columnist ('Critical Point') for Physics World. In 2021 he was awarded the William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize (Institute of Physics) for 'describing key humanities concepts for scientists, and explaining the significance of key scientific ideas for humanists.'

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