LOGICAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS
Written by Robert S. Cohen, Marx W. Wartofsky
Published by D. Reidel Publishing Company
in 1974
ISBN: 9027703914
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LOGICAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS
Written by Robert S. Cohen, Marx W. Wartofsky.
Stock no. 989087
1st.
1974.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition.
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Vol XIII. A collection of articles on philosophical issues in contemporary physics. The principal domain of these investigations is quantum physics. Blue cloth. viii and 462 pages. ISBN: 9027703914. Ex-lib, with usual markings, else contents very good. Text block lightly browned.
Front cover
Contents
- HUSEYIN YILMAZ: Perception and Philosophy Science
- JEFFREY BUB & WILLIAM DEMOPOULOS: The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
- C.A. HOOKER: Defense of a Non-Conventionalist Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
- LASZLO TISZA: Comments on C.A. Hooker: Systematic Realism
- BAS C. VAN FRAASSEN: The Formal Representation of Physical Quantities
- E.J. POST: Comments on 'The Formal Representation of Physical Quantities'
- BAS C. VAN FRAASEN: The Labyrinth of Quantum Logics
- EDWARD MACKINNON: Ontic Commitments of Quantum Mechanics
- JOHN STACHEL: Comments on 'Ontic Commitments of Quantum Mechanics'
- PATRICK A. HEELAN: Quantum Logic and Classical Logic: Their Respective Roles
- A.R. MARLOW: Implications of a New Axiom Set for Quantum Logic
- MILIC CAPEK: Two Types of Continuity
- A. PAPAPETROU: General Relativity - Some Puzzling Questions
- H. BERGMAN: Personal Remembrance of Albert Einstein
- H. BERMAN: The Controversy Concerning the Law of Causality in Contemporary Physics