Cosmology and astrophysics provide a unique resource for philosophers of science. This Cambridge Element surveys the existing literature, identifies areas for future research, and highlights how philosophy of cosmology and astrophysics have implicat...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Aug-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009538862)
Cosmology and astrophysics provide a unique resource for philosophers of science. This Cambridge Element surveys the existing literature, identifies areas for future research, and highlights how philosophy of cosmology and astrophysics have implicat...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 27-Mar-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009548083)
The search for a new scientific theory is typically prompted by an encounter with something in the world that cannot be explained by current theories. This is not the case for the search for a theory of quantum gravity, which has been primarily motiv...Daugiau...
This Element explores the motivations for seeking a quantum gravity theory, focusing on unification, incompatibilities between general relativity and quantum field theory, consistency, singularity resolution, and black hole thermodynamics results, ai...Daugiau...
Causation in Physics demonstrates the importance of causation in the physical world. It details why causal mastery of natural phenomena is an important part of the effective strategies of experimental physicists. This title is also available as Open...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 27-Feb-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009507622)
Causation in Physics demonstrates the importance of causation in the physical world. It details why causal mastery of natural phenomena is an important part of the effective strategies of experimental physicists. It develops three novel arguments for...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Jan-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009548113)
This Element is broadly about the geometrization of physics, but mostly it is about gauge theories. The over-arching question this Element aims to answer is: why is descriptive redundancy fruitful for physics? It provides three inter-related answers:...Daugiau...
This Element is broadly about the geometrization of physics, but mostly it is about gauge theories. Gauge theories lie at the heart of modern physics: in particular, they constitute the Standard Model of particle physics. At its simplest, the idea of...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Jan-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009517782)
This Element provides a somewhat comprehensive interpretation of general relativity, a description of what reality would be like if the theory were true. This concerns (i) what possibilities it represents, (ii) the internal structure of those possibi...Daugiau...
In this Element, the author offers a comprehensive interpretation of general relativity, describing its potential reality, internal structure, and differences from previous theories. The aim is to shape research agendas for physics philosophers, grad...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Jun-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009507301)
This Element introduces the philosophy of physical symmetry. It stresses both the continuity with historically important themes such as the Relativity Principle, as well as novel insights earned by working with contemporary media such as the covarian...Daugiau...
This Element is a concise, high-level introduction to the philosophy of physical symmetry. It begins with the notion of `physical representation (the kind of empirical representation of nature that we effect in doing physics), and then lays out the...Daugiau...
Despite its apparent complexity, our world seems to be governed by simple laws of physics. This volume provides a philosophical introduction to such laws. I explain how they are connected to some of the central issues in philosophy, such as ontology,...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Jun-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009479356)
Despite its apparent complexity, our world seems to be governed by simple laws of physics. This volume provides a philosophical introduction to such laws. I explain how they are connected to some of the central issues in philosophy, such as ontology,...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 04-Apr-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009467827)
Dimensional quantities such as length, mass and charge, i.e., numbers combined with a conventional unit, are essential components of theories in the sciences, especially physics, chemistry and biology. Do they represent a world with absolute physical...Daugiau...
Dimensional quantities such as length, mass and charge, i.e., numbers combined with a conventional unit, are essential components of theories in the sciences. This Element illustrates questions about them by imagining how one would convey the meaning...Daugiau...
The Element reconstructs, analyses and compares different derivational routes to a grounding of the Arrow of Time in entropy. It also evaluates the link between entropy and visible disorder, and the related claim of an alignment of the Arrow of Time...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Mar-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009500173)
The Element reconstructs, analyses and compares different derivational routes to a grounding of the Arrow of Time in entropy. It demonstrates that it is unlikely that high entropy states will coincide with visible disorder, thus disputing any link b...Daugiau...
Statistical mechanics is the third pillar of modern physics, next to quantum theory and relativity theory. It aims to account for the behaviour of macroscopic systems in terms of the dynamical laws that govern their microscopic constituents and proba...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Jan-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009468237)
In this Element, the authors investigate the philosophical and foundational issues that arise in statistical mechanics . They introduce the theoretical approaches in SM, Boltzmannian SM and Gibbsian SM, and discuss how they conceptualise equilibrium...Daugiau...
