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The Reduction of Physical Theories
A Contribution to the Unity of Physics Part 1: Foundations and Elementary Theory
Langbeschreibung
Using simple physical examples, this work by Erhard Scheibe presents an important and powerful approach to the reduction of physical theories. Novel to the approach is that it is not based, as usual, on a single reduction concept that is fixed once and for all, but on a series of recursively constructed reductions, with which all reductions appear as combinations of very specific elementary reductions. This leaves the general notion of theory reduction initially open and is beneficial for the treatment of the difficult cases of reduction from the fields of special and general relativity, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics,and quantum mechanics, which are treated in the second volume. The book is systematically organized and intended for readers interested in philosophy of science as well as physicists without deep philosophical knowledge.
Hauptbeschreibung
An important contribution to philosophy of science, at last available in English
Inhaltsverzeichnis
The Problem.- Physical Theories.- Corroboration and Empirical Progress.- Exact Reductions.- Approximate Reductions.- Partial Reductions.
Erhard Scheibe (1927-2010) was for several decades the leading philosopher of physics in the German speaking world. He gained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Göttingen, where he worked with Werner Heisenberg at the Max Planck Institute for Physics. He later became Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker's assistant at Hamburg. Erhard Scheibe obtained his Habilitation in 1963 from the University of Hamburg with a philosophical study of quantum mechanics. From 1964 to 1982 he was a full Professor of Philosophy in Göttingen, and from 1982 to 1992 in Heidelberg. Over the course of his career, Prof. Scheibe published six monographs in the philosophy and history of physics, edited the von Weizsäcker Festschrift and two conference proceedings, and wrote numerous essays on the philosophy and history of physics and on the history of philosophy.
ISBN-13:
9783662649985
Veröffentl:
2022
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.07.2022
Seiten:
260
Autor:
Erhard Scheibe
Gewicht:
559 g
Format:
241x160x20 mm
Serie:
207, Fundamental Theories of Physics
Sprache:
Englisch
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