Download or read book The Logic of Modern Physics written by Percy Williams Bridgman and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Logic of Modern Physics written by Percy Williams Bridgman and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Logic of Modern Physics written by Percy Williams Bridgman (Physicist, United States) and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Logic of Modern Physics written by P. W. Bridgman and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Logic of Modern Physics written by P. W. Bridgman and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foundations of Modern Physics written by Steven Weinberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg explains the foundations of modern physics in historical context for undergraduates and beyond.
Download or read book The Logic of Thermostatistical Physics written by Gerard G. Emch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to a thorough analysis of the role that models play in the practise of physical theory. The authors, a mathematical physicist and a philosopher of science, appeal to the logicians’ notion of model theory as well as to the concepts of physicists.
Download or read book Rational Reconstructions of Modern Physics written by Peter Mittelstaedt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newton’s classical physics and its underlying ontology are loaded with several metaphysical hypotheses that cannot be justified by rational reasoning nor by experimental evidence. Furthermore, it is well known that some of these hypotheses are not contained in the great theories of modern physics, such as the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. This book shows that, on the basis of Newton’s classical physics and by rational reconstruction, the theory of relativity as well as quantum mechanics can be obtained by partly eliminating or attenuating the metaphysical hypotheses. Moreover, it is shown that these reconstructions do not require additional hypotheses or new experimental results.
Download or read book The Language of Modern Physics written by Ernest H. Hutten and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1956 The Language of Modern Physics gives a complete account of the concepts both of classical and quantum physics. The first part of the book deals with modern logic and semantics and discussion is based on the semantic conception of truth and leads up to the criterion of meaning. The second and main part of the book is about basic ideas of physics. Here the model which underlies a scientific theory is of greatest import; in most instances the model is tacitly assumed, but we must bring it into the open if we want to understand the theory. The third and last part deals with the methods scientists use for confirming their hypotheses. This book is a must read for students and scholars of philosophy of science and philosophy in general.
Download or read book The Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics written by John Bernhard Stallo and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Theories written by William Demopoulos and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned philosopherÕs final work, illuminating how the logical empiricist tradition has failed to appreciate the role of actual experiments in forming its philosophy of science. The logical empiricist treatment of physics dominated twentieth-century philosophy of science. But the logical empiricist tradition, for all it accomplished, does not do justice to the way in which empirical evidence functions in modern physics. In his final work, the late philosopher of science William Demopoulos contends that philosophers have failed to provide an adequate epistemology of science because they have failed to appreciate the tightly woven character of theory and evidence. As a consequence, theory comes apart from evidence. This trouble is nowhere more evident than in theorizing about particle and quantum physics. Arguing that we must consider actual experiments as they have unfolded across history, Demopoulos provides a new epistemology of theories and evidence, albeit one that stands on the shoulders of giants. On Theories finds clarity in Isaac NewtonÕs suspicion of mere Òhypotheses.Ó NewtonÕs methodology lies in the background of Jean PerrinÕs experimental investigations of molecular reality and of the subatomic investigations of J. J. Thomson and Robert Millikan. Demopoulos extends this account to offer novel insights into the distinctive nature of quantum reality, where a logico-mathematical reconstruction of Bohrian complementarity meets John Stewart BellÕs empirical analysis of EinsteinÕs Òlocal realism.Ó On Theories ultimately provides a new interpretation of quantum probabilities as themselves objectively representing empirical reality.
Download or read book The Logic of Modern Physics written by Percy Williams Bridgman and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 1927-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE LOGIC OF MODERN PHYSICS written by P. W. BRIDGMAN and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excursion into the field of fundamental criticism by one whose activities have hitherto been confined almost entirely to experiment is not evidence of senile decay, as might be cynically assumed. I have always, throughout all my experimental work, felt an imperative need of a better understanding of the foundations of our physical thought and have for a long time made more or less unsystematic attempts to reach such an understanding. Only now, however, has a half sabbatical year given me leisure to attempt a more or less orderly exposition. In spite of previous writings on the broad fundamentals by Clifford, Stall, Mach, and Poincare, to mention only a few, I believe a new essay of this critical character needs no apology. For entirely apart from the question of whether many of the points of view of these essays can be maintained, the discovery of new facts in the domain of relativity and quantum theory has shifted the centre of interest and emphasis. All the quite recent activity with the new quantum mechanics seems to call for a new examination of fundamental matters which shall recognize, at least by implication, the existence of the special phenomena of the quantum domain. However, the necessity for re-examination does not mean at all that many of the results of previous criticism may not still be accepted; some of these results have become so thoroughly incorporated into physical thinking that we can assume them without mention. Thus the fundamental attitude of this essay is empiricism, which is now justified as the attitude of the physicist in large part by the inquiry into the physiological origin of our concepts of space, time, and mechanics with which the previous essays were largely concerned. None of the previous essays have consciously or immediately affected the details of this; in fact I have not read any of them within several years. If passages here recall passages already written, it is because the ideas have been assimilated and the precise origin forgotten; it is probably worth while to let such passages stand without revision, because such ideas gain in plausibility through having been found acceptable to independent thought. I am much indebted to Professor R. F. Alfred Hoernle of the Department of Philosophy of Johannesburg University, South Africa, for suggesting several modifications to make the text more acceptable to a philosopher, and slight amplifications for the benefit of readers not familiar with all the details of recent technical developments in physics...FROM THE BOOKS.
Download or read book The Nature of Physical Reality written by Henry Margenau and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farewell to Reality written by Jim Baggott and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed science author Jim Baggot, a lively, provocative, and “intellectually gratifying” critique of modern theoretical physics (The Economist). Where does one draw the line between solid science and fairy-tale physics? Jim Baggott argues that there is no observational or experimental evidence for many of the ideas of modern theoretical physics: super-symmetric particles, super strings, the multiverse, the holographic principle, or the anthropic cosmological principle. Unafraid to challenge prominent theorists, Baggott offers engaging portraits of many central figures of modern physics, including Stephen Hawking, Paul Davies, John D. Barrow, Brian Greene, and Leonard Susskind. Informed, comprehensive, and balanced, Farewell to Reality discusses the latest ideas about the nature of physical reality while clearly distinguishing between fact and fantasy, providing essential and entertaining reading for everyone interested in what we know and don’t know about the nature of the universe and reality itself.
Download or read book Reflections of a Physicist written by P. W. Bridgman and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1955 edition.
