Interpreting Bodies: Classical and Quantum Objects in Modern Physics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691017255 ISBN 13: 9780691017259

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Bewildering features of modern physics, such as relativistic space-time structure and the peculiarities of so-called quantum statistics, challenge traditional ways of conceiving of objects in space and time. Interpreting Bodies brings together essays by leading philosophers and scientists to provide a unique overview of the implications of such physical theories for questions about the nature of objects. The collection combines classic articles by Max Born, Werner Heisenberg, Hans Reichenbach, and Erwin Schrodinger with recent contributions, including several papers that have never before been published.


The book focuses on the microphysical objects that are at the heart of quantum physics and addresses issues central to both the "foundational" and the philosophical debates about objects. Contributors explore three subjects in particular: how to identify a physical object as an individual, the notion of invariance with respect to determining what objects are or could be, and how to relate objective and measurable properties to a physical entity. The papers cover traditional philosophical topics, common-sense questions, and technical matters in a consistently clear and rigorous fashion, illuminating some of the most perplexing problems in modern physics and the philosophy of science.


The contributors are Diederik Aerts, Max Born, Elena Castellani, Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Bas C. van Fraassen, Steven French, Gian Carlo Ghirardi, Roberto Giuntini, Werner Heisenberg, Decio Krause, David Lewis, Tim Maudlin, Peter Mittelstaedt, Giulio Peruzzi, Hans Reichenbach, Erwin Schrodinger, Paul Teller, and Giuliano Toraldo di Francia.

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Elena Castellani is Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Florence. She has a doctoral degree in theoretical physics and a Ph.D. in philosophy and is the author of Symmetry and Nature: From the Harmony of Figures to the Invariance of Laws.

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"The collection as a whole, as well as the introduction by the editor, forcefully make the case that there is a wide range of interesting and unique issues raised by contemporary physical theories for the traditional problems associated with the nature of physical objects."--Ronald Anderson, Boston College

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0691017255
• ISBN 13: 9780691017259
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 340
• Herausgeber: Castellani Elena
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