The philosophy of physics / Roberto Torretti
- Bib ID:
- 1850158
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Torretti, Roberto, 1930-
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- Description:
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- New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999
- xvi, 512 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0521562597 (hardback)
- 0521565715 (paperback)
- Series:
- Evolution of modern philosophy.
- Summary:
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"Roberto Torretti has written a study of the philosophy of physics that both introduces the subject to the nonspecialist and contains many original and important contributions for professionals in the area. Unlike other fields of endeavor such as art, religion, or politics, all of which preceded philosophical reflection and may well outlive it, modern physics was born as a part of philosophy and has retained to this day a properly philosophical concern for the clarity and coherence of ideas. Any introduction to the philosophy of physics must therefore focus on the conceptual development of physics itself. This book pursues that development from Galileo and Newton through Maxwell and Boltzmann to Einstein and the founders of quantum mechanics."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Transformation of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century
- 2. Newton
- 3. Kant
- 4. The Rich Nineteenth Century
- 5. Relativity
- 6. Quantum Mechanics
- 7. Perspectives and Reflections.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Physics -- Philosophy
- Copyright:
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