Metaphysics in contemporary physics / edited by Tomasz Bigaj, Christian Wüthrich.

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TextSeries: Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities ; v. 104.Publisher: Leiden : Brill Rodopi, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (485 pages)Content type:

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9004310827
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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Metaphysics in contemporary physics.DDC classification:

530.01

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B67 .M48 2016

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Contents:

Metaphysics in Contemporary Physics; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Rethinking Outside the Toolbox: Reflecting Again on the Relationship between Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics.; Ontology: An Empirical Fundamentalist Approach.; Quantum Structure and Spacetime.; Things Ain't What They Used to Be. Physics Without Objects; Particles in a Quantum Ontology of Properties; Essentialism and Modern Physics; Symmetry and Qualitativity; Relational Time; General Covariance, Diffeomorphism Invariance, and Background Independence in 5 Dimensions.

A Metaphysics from String Dualities: Pluralism, Fundamentalism, ModalityIs Mereology Empirical? Composition for Fermions.; Physicalism and the Part-Whole Relation; Metaphysical Emergence: Weak and Strong; The Metaphysics of Laws: Dispositionalism vs. Primitivism; Classical and Quantum Sources of Randomness; Renormalization for Philosophers.

Summary: 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 theory, general relativity, string theory et cetera), to specific problems in scientifically-oriented analytic metaphysics, such as the problem of emergence and reduction, the part-whole relation, and the question of objecthood, properties and individuality on the fundamental level of reality. The authors of the contributions are philosophers of science, physicists and metaphysicians of international renown, and their work represents the cutting edge in modern metaphysics of physical sciences. Contributors are: Tomasz Bigaj, Jessica Bloom, Nazim Bouatta, Jeremy Butterfield, Adam Caulton, Dennis Dieks, Mauro Dorato, Michael Esfeld, Steven French, Andreas Hu¿ttemann, Marek Kus¿¿, Douglas Kutach, Vincent Lam, Olimpia Lombardi, Kerry McKenzie, Thomas M©ıller-Nielsen, Matteo Morganti, Ioan Muntean, Dean Rickles, Antonio Vassallo, Jessica Wilson, Christian Wu¿thrich.

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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 theory, general relativity, string theory et cetera), to specific problems in scientifically-oriented analytic metaphysics, such as the problem of emergence and reduction, the part-whole relation, and the question of objecthood, properties and individuality on the fundamental level of reality. The authors of the contributions are philosophers of science, physicists and metaphysicians of international renown, and their work represents the cutting edge in modern metaphysics of physical sciences. Contributors are: Tomasz Bigaj, Jessica Bloom, Nazim Bouatta, Jeremy Butterfield, Adam Caulton, Dennis Dieks, Mauro Dorato, Michael Esfeld, Steven French, Andreas Hu¿ttemann, Marek Kus¿¿, Douglas Kutach, Vincent Lam, Olimpia Lombardi, Kerry McKenzie, Thomas M©ıller-Nielsen, Matteo Morganti, Ioan Muntean, Dean Rickles, Antonio Vassallo, Jessica Wilson, Christian Wu¿thrich.

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