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Interpreting Physics: Language and the Classical/Quantum Divide Hardback - 2011
by MacKinnon, Edward
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- Title Interpreting Physics: Language and the Classical/Quantum Divide
- Author MacKinnon, Edward
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First edition
- Condition New
- Pages 270
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Springer Verlag, Dordrecht
- Publication date 2011
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-9400723687
- ISBN 9789400723689 / 9400723687
- Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.75 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Philosophical
- Category Science
- Library of Congress subjects Quantum theory - Philosophy
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011939573
- Dewey Decimal Code 530.014
- Quantity available 2
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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.
