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Process Realism in Physics: How Experiment and History Necessitate a Process Ontology (Process Thought, 28) - Hardcover

Penn, William

 
9783110782370: Process Realism in Physics: How Experiment and History Necessitate a Process Ontology (Process Thought, 28)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3110782375 ISBN 13: 9783110782370
Verlag: De Gruyter, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Science should tell us what the world is like. However, realist interpretations of physics face many problems, chief among them the pessimistic meta induction. This book seeks to develop a realist position based on process ontology that avoids the traditional problems of realism. Primarily, the core claim is that in order for a scientific model to be minimally empirically adequate, that model must describe real experimental processes and dynamics. Any additional inferences from processes to things, substances or objects are not warranted, and so these inferences are shown to represent the locus of the problems of realism. The book then examines the history of physics to show that the progress of physical research is one of successive eliminations of thing interpretations of models in favor of more explanatory and experimentally verified process interpretations. This culminates in collections of models that cannot coherently allow for thing interpretations, but still successfully describe processes.

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William Penn, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA.

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Verlag
De Gruyter
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3110782375
ISBN 13 
9783110782370
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
205
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