Metaphysics in contemporary physics /

Metaphysics in contemporary physics /

This book is a collection of essays whose topics center around relations between analytic metaphysics and modern physical theories. The contributions to the volume cover a broad spectrum of issues, ranging from metaphysical implications of selected physical theories (quantum mechanics, quantum field...

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Other Authors: Bigaj, Tomasz., Wüthrich, Christian.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden : Brill Rodopi. c2016.

Series: Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 104.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287471.

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Metaphysics.
Physics > Philosophy.
Quantum theory > Philosophy.
Philosophy and science.
Electronic books.

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Call Number: B67 .M48 2016

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Tomasz Bigaj and Christian Wüthrich
  • Introduction /
  • Tomasz Bigaj and Christian Wüthrich
  • Rethinking Outside the Toolbox: Reflecting Again on the Relationship between Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics. /
  • Steven French and Kerry McKenzie
  • Ontology: An Empirical Fundamentalist Approach. /
  • Douglas Kutach
  • Quantum Structure and Spacetime. /
  • Vincent Lam
  • Things Ain't What They Used to Be. Physics Without Objects /
  • Dean Rickles and Jessica Bloom
  • Particles in a Quantum Ontology of Properties /
  • Olimpia Lombardi and Dennis Dieks
  • Essentialism and Modern Physics /
  • Tomasz Bigaj
  • Symmetry and Qualitativity /
  • Thomas Møller-Nielsen
  • Relational Time /
  • Matteo Morganti
  • General Covariance, Diffeomorphism Invariance, and Background Independence in 5 Dimensions /
  • Antonio Vassallo
  • A Metaphysics from String Dualities: Pluralism, Fundamentalism, Modality /
  • Ioan Muntean
  • Is Mereology Empirical? Composition for Fermions. /
  • Adam Caulton
  • Physicalism and the Part-Whole Relation /
  • Andreas Hüttemann
  • Metaphysical Emergence: Weak and Strong /
  • Jessica Wilson
  • The Metaphysics of Laws: Dispositionalism vs. Primitivism /
  • Mauro Dorato and Michael Esfeld
  • Classical and Quantum Sources of Randomness /
  • Marek Kuś
  • Renormalization for Philosophers /
  • Jeremy Butterfield and Nazim Bouatta.